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Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, has resigned from her office effective right away.
She sent her letter of resignation to the President on Saturday, July 22, 2023.
According to the Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecelia Dapaah, there are glaring discrepancies between what is being addressed publicly and the major thrust of the original accusation regarding the theft of money from her home by two househelps.
Patience Botwe, 18, and Sarah Agyei, 30, who are the defendants, are accused of conspiring to commit a crime and five counts of theft. Between July and October 2022, allegedly thefts took place.
The housekeepers are accused of stealing personal items from Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah during this time, including a variety of garments costing GHC 95,000, as well as handbags, perfumes, and jewelry totaling US$95,000, from her.
Ms. Botwe is also charged with stealing six Kente pieces worth GHC 90,000 and six pairs of men’s clothes costing US$3,000, both of which belonged to the minister’s husband.
Three additional people—her father, her current and former boyfriends, and Ms. Botwe—are also accused of participating in the crime and are being prosecuted. They are each accused of receiving GHC 1,000,000, GHC 180,000, and GHC 50,000 dishonestly.
Dapaah said in a statement on Friday (21 July) that she is reviewing the reports and would give a thorough response shortly.
”I write to inform you that I wish to resign from my position as Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources.
“It has been a great privilege and honour for me to have been given the opportunity to serve in your government and an even greater honour to have worked to try and bring your great vision for our country to fruition.
“Since yesterday, Friday, July 21, 2023, social and traditional media have been full of stories about a court case involving a theft that took place last year in the home I live with my husband and daughter. The stories sought to suggest that I own various huge sums of foreign currencies and millions of Ghana cedis which have been stolen from my home.
“Whereas I can state emphatically that those figures do not represent correctly what my husband and I reported to the Police, I am very much aware of the import of such stories around someone in my position.
“I am resigning therefore because I do not want this matter to become a preoccupation of government and a hindrance to the work of government at such a crucial time.
”I intend to cooperate fully with all state agencies to enable them fully establish the facts, I have no doubt whatsoever that at the end of the processes, it will be fully established that I have conducted myself with integrity during my period in public service and I will be fully exonerated from all the allegations that have filled the public domain in the past 24 hours.
Read the letter below:
Source: Ghanatodayonline.com
