Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has said that as long as the law is concerned whoever a cannot explain the source of large amount in his or her account or home, the person will have to answer questions relating to the money.
In relation to the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah, Kpebu said that she still has a lot of questions to answer.
“As for this money, as long as I am alive, we will get to the bottom,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday August 23.
For his part, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr Joshua Jebuntie Zaato said that the 2025 half-year report issued by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has vindicated the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah.
“The OSPs report has vindicated our long-held view that Cecilia Dapaah did not steal public money. Some people were clearly determined to get this woman jailed,” he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, August 23.
His comments come at a time when the Office of the Special Prosecutor said that after nearly seven months of extensive investigation by the Office and a parallel inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, no direct and immediate evidence of corruption was found in respect of seized funds and frozen bank accounts linked to former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Ms. Cecilia Abena Dapaah, and her associates.
It is recalled that the Office commenced an investigation in July 2023 in respect of suspected corruption and corruption-related offences regarding large amounts of money and other valuable items involving Ms. Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her associates.
The OSP, in its half-year report for 2025, said:
“After nearly seven months of extensive investigation by the Office and a parallel inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States, no direct and immediate evidence of corruption was found in respect of seized funds and frozen bank accounts linked to Ms. Dapaah and her associates – though the investigation identified strong indications of suspected money laundering and structuring, beyond the direct mandate of the Office.”
