Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Abena Dapaah has resigned.
This comes after the two house helps of the Minister who are currently facing charges before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly stealing 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.”
