The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Dapaah, has reportedly resigned from her position.
The news about her resignation was contained in a statement released from her officer late afternoon on Saturday, July 22, 2023.
This news of her resignation follows various reports suggesting that some monies which include $1 million, €300,000, and millions of Ghana Cedis and other items being stolen from the home at Abelempke in Accra.
In her letter of resignation with was sighted online, the minister explained that she decided to resign because the issues surrounding the monies stolen from the government were affecting the government negatively.
However, she noted that the subject of theft in her home as captured by many reports has been grossly exaggerated.
Read the full letter below…
LETTER OF RESIGNATION
I write to inform you that I wish to resign from my position as Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources.
It has been a great privilege and honour for me to have been given the opportunity to serve in your government and an even greater honour to have worked to try and bring your great vision for our country to fruition.
Since yesterday, Friday, July 21, 2023, social and traditional media have been full of stories about a court case involving a theft that took place last year in the home I live with my husband and daughter. The stories sought to suggest that I own various huge sums of foreign currencies and millions of Ghana cedis which have been stolen from my home.
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 am resigning therefore 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.
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.
I thank you my dear, Mr President, for the honour done me in giving me the opportunity to serve our beautiful nation Ghana.
