{"id":86463,"date":"2023-07-25T06:37:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/25\/we-should-be-jubilating-over-cecilia-dapaahs-scandal\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T06:37:36","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T06:37:36","slug":"we-should-be-jubilating-over-cecilia-dapaahs-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/07\/25\/we-should-be-jubilating-over-cecilia-dapaahs-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"We should be jubilating over Cecilia Dapaah&#8217;s scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu says Ghanaians must be celebrating over the former Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah\u2019s scandal.<\/p>\n<p>That, he said was because the issue had brought to light the scandalous activities of some persons in government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn actual fact, the first thing we should be celebrating is the fact that God gave us such a case. You see how President Akufo-Addo has been denying that there is no corruption and God has handed us this case, we should be celebrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I am excited because we have had a case where we have seen big money that so far is looking like there can\u2019t be any plausible explanation. So, it brings excitement until she can displace the excitement\u2026So let\u2019s start celebrating,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Prof Ransford Gyampo, a senior lecturer and political scientist at the University of Ghana, has strongly criticised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for making comments that he said could potentially undermine the ongoing investigation into the scandal involving Madam Dapaah.<\/p>\n<p>The President in accepting the resignation of the former minister said \u201cAt the end of the day, your integrity, whilst in office, will be fully established.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the academician in an interview on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>, on Monday, July 24, voiced his disapproval of the President\u2019s remarks, stating that such comments have the potential to interfere with the findings and independence of security agencies handling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president accepted her resignation, but I didn\u2019t like the bit where he expressed hope that she [Cecilia Abena Dapaah] was going to be exonerated. It shouldn\u2019t come from the president. It\u2019s becoming one too many, sometimes when people are going to be investigated, you hear the number one gentleman of the land making comments to the effect that the person is not even guilty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of how independent people are, they tend to be holding to the president. When we have this kind of issue of the president expressing this kind of hope, it tends to undermine the independent capacity of the investigative bodies to be able to work and come out with findings. He should just have accepted the resignation letter, and he shouldn\u2019t have commented further.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0Former Gender Minister, Nana Oye Bampoe Addo, also lashed out at President Akufo-Addo over the content of the letter the first gentleman of the land issued to accept the resignation of Ms Dapaah.<\/p>\n<p>She asked the President to tell Ghanaians the source of the former Sanitation Minister\u2019s wealth.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu says Ghanaians must be celebrating over the former Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah\u2019s scandal. 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