A Deputy Director of Communications of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Owusu Bempah, has dared former President John Dramani Mahama to swear by the popular river god deity ‘antoa’ if he has never kept over one million dollars in his home.
"John Mahama should come and swear by antoa if he hasn’t kept $1m before . . . we are daring Mahama, if he is a man he should swear by antoa that he never kept more than this in his home before. If he can’t swear then he and his NDC should shut up,” he said in an interview.
According to him, the NPP does not support the action of the former Sanitation Minister, Mrs Cecilia Dapaah in keeping such a huge amount of money in her bedroom.
“We condemn that act of the woman, we are not supporting the action of the woman which is why the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), established by the NPP, is investigating the matter. At least the woman has shown integrity by resigning from government . . . NDC has no moral right to criticize the NPP for this,” he said.
He said the National Democratic Congres (NDC) and their flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama are being hypocritical in their criticisms of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in relation to the case.
“ . . the NDC should stop being hypocritical. The BNI and National Security should start going to the homes of the NDC bigwigs and John Mahama to see if they are also not allegedly keeping huge monies in their homes. The OSP should be granted a search warrant to search Mahama’s house,” he added.
"Where did Mahama get that money he doled out to delegates from for his re-election? $1m is a chicken change to Mahama, he should give us a break,” he said.
The former President in a tweet on Friday said, "$1m+ €300k & millions of GHS in a Ghanaian Minister's home? Scandalous!! Even if genuinely acquired, why keep millions of hard currency at home?
Will @NAkufoAddo ever set a good example for public office holders in his administration?"
Cecilia Dapaah Arrested By OSP
Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, has been arrested by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
This was confirmed in a statement signed by the Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng dated July 24, 2023.
This follows a court case in which two house helps and others are standing trial for allegedly stealing $1 million, €300,000 and millions of cedis from her Ablekuma residence.
Two of her house helps, Patience Botwe (18) and Sarah Agyei (30), were previously charged with conspiracy to commit a crime and five counts of stealing, following the alleged incidents between July and October 2022.
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This is senseless What kind of justification is this
Your comments are irritating and very unfortunate. Learn to focus on issues, deviation in times like this is a huge sickness
John Ford Mahama is the biggest th!ef in Ghana but he is making the most noise. You gave the country's whole bauxite to your brother. Cr!m!nal Mahama.
My fellow Ghanaians are quick to give judgement on matters whiles they are not fully acquainted with the facts. I do not condone this act of keeping money at home. The woman is a minister whose ministry get allocation of the national budget. The OSP should let experts audit the ministry's budget allocations and appropriation given to her ministry and all contracts. If every money given to the ministry and transaction are correct then the money is indeed belongs to the family. I learnt the husband is a successful businessman.
And such a guy is being paid by us. Now he has made money so talk saaaa. Franculo! This is supposed to be speaking for Ghana gas. The statement he issued the last time were full of errors. He does more politics than concentrating on his primary job.
You have all these people wasting our taxes in the name of government appointees! Ah....Ghana paa nie? Where did we go wrong? How did we get it wrong? The most annoying part is, they are not mindful of the mode of the citizens but, they have the courage always to come an insults us in the face as if, we are blind, deaf and dumb to the happenings! "You people" should keep going la....... You are meeting people carrying water so you think you are you, you will soon meet people carrying akpeteshie there you go know!!!
The evil always wants to compare .The problem is not the politician but the laws of Ghana which help people our leaders to still and they are protected by the Presidents who controls everything .This current leadership are very greedy .It seems the President is under a spell by Gabby . The NANA we know is not this , he is not of himself .We pray for our leaders , God visit our leaders .
where is Mahama getting the money to finance his campaign to be reelected? He has no business in Ghana so where is his money coming from? All politicians are equally guilty.
Gyimie saaaaaa, na afe aso. why should one be defending this act by a minister of state. Someone somewhere needs only GHS100.00 to start a business but is struggling to get. Stealing money to break the 8 ampa.
My brother, this politics of equalization is losing its relevance in Ghana politics. We all said Mahama was corrupt with the many scandals involving him, so we voted him out. If we bring someone in only for him/her to not only repeat same mistakes if not worse, then it would have been better if he/she had not come at all. Assuming without admitting Mahama has one million dollars at home, will that be enough justification for any minister to also have same in his or her home? When Yellow Ceci was arrested and taken to her house for a search, why didn't her colleague ministers also invite the OSP search team to come and search their houses too to equalize the equation? Am for NPP but this Yellow Ceci saga is difficult to defend. What prevented her from buying a safe in the name of the husband to keep those monies inside under lock and key. Even if she had kept the money in a suitcase using the number keys to lock it, these house helps couldn't have had access to the money unless they decide to take the suitcase away. From every indication, the money was kept loosely or not hidden enough thus the easy access and constant fetching. I also expected the husband to have restrained his wife (Yellow Ceci) from going to report the case to the police considering the fact that the wife was holding a political position and the perception that every politician in Ghana is a ***barred word***. As things stand now, nobody is interested in the house helps stealing the money. The public is more interested in how Yellow Ceci came by the money. If you sell marijuana (wee) to someone on credit and he or she refuses to pay, you don't go to the police to report that someone bought your marijuana (wee) on credit and has refused to pay. The police will simply say " The man bring himself". So you just endure the pain and let it go. If you pick a diamond on the dancing floor, once you continue to dance, same diamond will get missing on the dancing floor. Politics money don't last. Once you are out of office it burns like patrol.