A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alfred Kojo Thompson, has dismissed various assertions that the monies stolen from Cecilia Abena Dapaah’s home could have been illegally acquired.
Mr Thompson said it is wrong for anybody to assume that the former Sanitation Minister’s wealth is ill-gotten.
He was reacting to claims by lawyer Martin Kpebu on The Keypoints on TV3/3FM on Saturday, August 5 that the former Bantama lawmaker had more money than what was declared in her statement to the police.
Mr Kojo Thompson said reports he has indicate that Madam Abena Dapaah even had other businesses not known in the public space.
“Yes, we have this public declaration of your assets, so what we have to do is to check her assets whether these are things that maybe she has stated in as her declaration, whether she has them or not, what other businesses she is doing.
“Because I also sat on a station where a cousin from another party stated categorically that she had a cosmetic business and the business was thriving so she didn’t even know why she should come and accept a ministerial position because it is a good business that was going on.
“Could it be that it is the body cream business that was giving her money? I do not want to speculate. The lady said she was making a lot of money from that place. So, I don’t know whether it could be part of the money she has gotten.”
The former Deputy Managing Director for the National Investment Bank (NIB), however, conceded that the $1million, €300,000 and millions of undisclosed Ghana Cedis should have been banked.
“All these monies should have been banked. That is the mistake maybe she made and I am sure on hindsight she would have regretted not doing that but once you bank these things nobody can go into your wardrobe or your bed or your inner bedroom.”