President Akufo-Addo has accepted the resignation of Cecilia Abena Dapaah as the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources.

This was announced in a statement signed by the President on Saturday, July 22, 2023.

The President thanked Madam Dapaah for her services to the government and the nation.

Cecilia Abena Dapaah tendered in her resignation letter to the President after she became the talk of town because her two house helps who are currently facing charges before an Accra Circuit Court allegedly stole an amount of $1 million, €300,000, and millions of Ghanaian cedis and other personal effects at her residence in Abelenkpe, Accra, in October 2022. 

In her resignation letter addressed to the President, Madam Dapaah said she decided to step down “because I do not want this matter to become a preoccupation of government and a hindrance to the work of government at such a crucial time.”

The Minister in the said letter denied part of the allegations against the accused persons. 

She said there’re inconsistencies in the reports circulating in the media space about her court case involving a theft that took place last year.

“Whereas I can state emphatically that those figures do not represent correctly what my husband and I reported to the Police, I am very much aware of the import of such stories around someone in my position.”

“I intend to cooperate fully with all state agencies to enable them fully establish the facts. I have no doubt whatsoever that at the end of the processes, it will be fully established that I have conducted myself with integrity during my period in public service and I will be fully exonerated from all the allegations that have filled the public domain in the past 24 hours.”