Nana Obiri Boahen, a former deputy General Secretary of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), has shared his thoughts on the Cecilia Dapaah theft case involving her house helps.
The former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah, resigned after causing the arrest and prosecution of her house helps who she accused of stealing her 1 million dollars from her bedroom.
Madam Cecilia Dapaah received public backlash for stashing such huge sum of money in her residence, thereby compelling her to vacate her office.
Commenting on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" morning show regarding who wins the NPP flagbearer election, Nana Obiri Boahen, who vouched for Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia as the best candidate and strongly believed he would make a good President of Ghana, blasted those who justified Cecilia Dapaah's action to keep a million dollars in her room.
Some NPP members and broadcaster Paul Adom-Otchere defended the former Minister, claiming the money didn't belong to her but rather it was money donated to her family at a funeral rite and she was safely keeping it on behalf of her family.
Nana Obiri Boahen registered his utter disgust over such statements saying "without prejudice to what is happening, if you find 1 million dollars in a political character's room, look politics in Africa, it will affect you".
"You don't underrate the intelligence of the average Ghanaian", he warned.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I am accusing the US ambassador of promoting homosexuality and immorality in Ghana. I think she is a democrat. If she goes to Utah in America where people don't even drink alcohol with her propaganda, she would be jailed. Why is she doing what Utahns don’t prefer in Ghana? She has to keep her mouth shut over this religious issue.
Well, @nana your short ,corrupt, wicked, arrogant president was talking about her integrity being established at the end. Again, do you think Ghanaians are that dumb? A minister makes millions of dollars legitimately and you think she will keep it at home at the risk of loosing it to fire? Are you ok? Do you care to know the salary of a minister? The president earns GHC29k a month. And for context she did not even know that they were stealing from her until her husband physically caught the ***barred word*** in their bedroom! This presumes that there was more and what was stolen was insignificant else she would have noticed the reduction in the amount over time!
I didn’t hear Paul Addom Okyere defending her though. He stated what was on the chart sheet which is the only fact we all know. It is wrong to keep such an amount and until it is proven that that she stole it, you cannot blame her. That was the position of Paul and he advocated for the special prosecutor to follow the laid down procedures to investigate the woman. We Ghanaians always miss the opportunity to properly investigate an alleged corruption case because of political interest and sentiment. Condemning or defending her is not the point but a proper investigation to prosecute anyone found culpable should be the way.
These are the people l like in our great party, kudos Obiri for the blank truth If we don't take care, this will go a long way to hurt the party. We don't need to defend anything indefensible in our party.