The immediate past Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Dapaah was one of President Akufo-Addo’s good ministers, Founding President of Imani Africa Franklin Cudjoe has said.
Mr Cudjoe said that it was ‘sad” she had to leave office in this manner.
“Minister Cecilia Dapaah resigns. She was one of the better ones. Sad she fell on the ‘questionable wealth’ dagger. There are very few hard working ministers left. Far more are fantastically incompetent and amassing so much,” he tweeted.
— Franklin CUDJOE (@lordcudjoe) July 22, 2023
She tendered in her resignation in a letter to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on Saturday, July 22 barely 24 hours after news of some foreign cash stolen from her bedroom came to light.
“I intend to cooperate fully with all the state agencies to enable them fully establish the facts,” she assured in her letter.
“I have no doubt that at the end of the processes it will be established that I have conducted myself with integrity during my period in public service and I will be fully exonerated from all the allegations,” she further said.
Madam Cecilia Dapaah was said to have kept $1 million, €300,000 and millions of undisclosed Ghana Cedis at home.
These monies were allegedly stolen by two house helps, for which they are standing trial at an Accra Circuit Court.
She had earlier indicated that there were inconsistencies with the facts and the public reports.
She, therefore, insisted in her resignation letter that the figures put out in the public domain do not correctly reflect what she and her husband submitted to the police in their statement.
The former lawmaker, however, admits she understands the import of such stories around someone of her stature.
“I am resigning, therefore, because I do not want such a matter to become a preoccupation of government and a hindrance to the work of government at such a crucial time.”