The Center for Democratic Development (CDD) Ghana has questioned the basis for the government setting up investigative bodies if it can just shut down and discontinue high-profile cases.
The Office of the Attorney General (AG) and Ministry of Justice have said there is no basis for the Economic and Organized Crimes Office (EOCO) to conduct money laundering investigations into the affairs of former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah.
The Special Prosecutor (OSP) had earlier this year dropped charges against the former minister and referred the matter to EOCO for money laundering investigations.
But, after studying the documents submitted to it by EOCO, the office of the AG has since advised against money laundering investigations into the matter by EOCO.
Responding to the matter in a statement, CDD-Ghana stated that expressed worry over the matter adding that the development does not add to good governance.
“The Government makes much of the fact that it pioneered the establishment of the OSP and has provided significant financial resources to enable the OSP and related agencies to function. But what is the point of funding the budgets of these investigative and anticorruption or anti-crime agencies in one breath, while, turning around, to frustrate or obstruct their efforts to investigate politically sensitive and other high-profile cases.
“Given Ghana’s continuing dismal performance in fighting corruption and associated alarming deterioration of the quality of governance, this persistent inconclusive handling and shutting down of high profile scandals only serves to further undermine the already low public trust in our state institutions,” CDD-Ghana stated.
Attached is the full statement
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM
