By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
Embattled former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah’s application seeking to restrain officials from the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) from continuing to freeze accounts and seize cash recovered from her Abelemkpe residence has been adjourned to February 1, 2024.
The OSP froze the former minister’s Prudential and Societe General bank accounts after huge sums of money were recovered from her home during a search.
On August 31, 2023, the High Court in Accra ordered the OSP to return the $590,000 and Ghc 2.73 million seized from Madam Dapaah’s home within seven days.
But the OSP, in a response to the High Court’s decision, said it disagreed with the court and requested the Human Rights Court permit the continuous freezing of the former minister’s properties and cash.
However, the embattled former sanitation minister, on October 9, 2023, in an application, wanted the freeze and seizure case to be expedited.
The OSP announced on its social media page (Facebook) that the case was adjourned to February 1, 2024.
“The Human Rights Court sitting in Accra has adjourned to 1 February 2024 the case in which former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah and her husband, Daniel Osei Kuffuor, have filed an interlocutory injunction application against the OSP to restrain the Office from continuing to freeze Madam Dapaah’s accounts and seizing cash recovered from their residence,” the post read.
