Atik Mohammed has reprimanded Special Prosecutor, Kissi Agyebeng, over the Cecilia Dapaah money laundering accusations.
The Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) says it has returned the docket on the former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Dapaah, it received from the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
OSP's Investigations
It could be recalled that the OSP handed over its investigations to the EOCO after pressing hard against Cecilia Dapaah in the law court and later dropping their charges against her.
The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) quit their alleged corruption case against the former Minister of Sanitation stating “after nearly seven months of extensive investigation by the OSP and a parallel inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) of the United States, no direct and immediate evidence of corruption has been found in the seized funds and frozen bank accounts linked to Ms. Dapaah and her associates” and transferred the case to the EOCO.
It therefore transferred the case to EOCO for lack of jurisdiction in investigating money laundering matters.
EOCO In Pontius Pilat-esque
But speaking to the media at the 14th Commonwealth Regional Conference of Heads of anti-corruption agencies in Africa, the EOCO Executive Director, Maame Yaa Tiwa Addo-Danquah disclosed that her outfit can't proceed with their investigations either because what the OSP provided them is empty.
“If you read the Attorney-General’s advice, whatever we would have done has already been directed at the Police CID and as he (the Attorney-General) said this morning, when you investigate a case and do not find anything, we should be bold enough to come and tell the public that for this case, even though I suspected this at the outset, that wasn’t what came out. We should be bold with the Ghanaian," she indicated.
The EOCO boss further said her office “cannot continue to fish when you don’t even know what you are looking for. You just go about looking for something that you know you are not even sure of”.
She also stressed “what I am going to do is that, with the Attorney-General’s advice, I will send the docket that we received from the OSP back to him, confirming that there is nothing in it”.
OSP Now 'Walking Alone'?
Reacting to this latest development during a panel discussion on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo", Atik Mohammed expressed disappointment in Kissi Agyebeng and his seemingly momentous failure saying "now, everybody is rejecting him. The Attorney General says he cleared Madam Cecilia Dapaah and EOCO also says he should come and take his empty docket away. It tells you what we have been saying about this man is true; he is not working".
Branding the Special Prosecutor as incompetent, Atik challenged him to name one particular case he has successfully executed since his appointment.
"Has there been any one case that he has successfully prosecuted since he became OSP?", he questioned.
To him, Kissi Agyebeng is only enjoying the luxuries and glamor his office brings stating "the man moves like an Arabian King".
