The events involving missing money at the home of a serving minister have dealt a serious blow to the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo administration, according to a communicator for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Solomon Nkansah.
The minister, in 2022, is said to have lost a million dollars, 300,000 euros, and 350,000 cedis to two housemaids, ages 30 and 18, in what has come to be known as the Cecilia Dapaah case.
Although the situation was a setback for the administration, Nkansah added that the NPP should not be concerned about it and that its members should stop supporting it in any way.
“Whichever way you look at it, it is a big blow to the government, it is not good for governance in this country,” he submitted on the Alhaji and Alhaji talk show on Pan African Television (July 22, 2023).
“Successive governments have been preaching that Ghanaians must develop the habit of saving in the banks…and if you have a minister who is supposed to lead by example, allegedly keeping such monies in her house at a time that our dollar, euro seem not to be stable, then it is cause for concern,” he added.
On how the NPP should handle the issue, he said: “It is not good for our image and it also creates problems for politicians. NPP members must not worry about it, it is not for you to go and defend the indefensible, that is recklessness, that is unseriousness.
“Because I have combed through our constitution and there is nowhere that she should be made a minister and keep it on behalf of the party,” he added.
Nkansah demanded that the Office of the Special Prosecutor and the Ghana Revenue Authority open investigations into the situation, saying that it was in the former minister’s best interest to do so.
Dapaah expressed her willingness to cooperate with any investigation regarding the incident after resigning from her post in a letter dated July 22, 2023.
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
