Kwasi Kyei Darkwah
Veteran Ghanaian broadcaster, King Kwasi Kyei Darkwah, popularly known as KKD, has expressed his disappointment over the state’s failure to prosecute former Minister of Sanitation, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, following the discovery of significant sums of money in her home.
KKD accused the country's legal system of operating with favoritism, suggesting that ordinary citizens would not receive the same leniency.
His comments come after it was revealed that two of Dapaah's house helps had stolen $1 million, €300,000, and other valuable items from her residence in Abelemkpe.
Subsequent investigations by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) led to the discovery of several million Ghana cedis at the former minister's home.
KKD argued that if an ordinary citizen was found with a similar amount of money, they would likely face immediate arrest.
"Why can we live in a country where if some young man, who is doing his small hustling and doing his bet, has the police find just one million Ghana cedis in his house? He may be arrested and questioned where he found it," KKD stated.
He implied that the lack of investigation or prosecution was indicative of a system that shields those in power.
"But a public servant who claims they have distilled the Odo lagoon has all this money in their home. Whether they killed people to get that money, whether they did blood rituals to get that money, whether they stole that money from the government.
“Whether they took that money as bribes, or whether they have a cloth manufacturing business that gives them that money, or whether they have a brother who was a shoemaker who made the greatest shoes in all of Africa, so he earned all that money and gave it to them, no. Nobody is able to question them about it or prosecute them about it," he continued.
We are a nation of fools. Cecilia Dapaah is not being prosecuted; but, if police discovered GHC1 million in the home of a young man, he would be questioned and prosecuted - King Kwasi Kyei Darkwah (KKD) #TV3GH via @3fm927 pic.twitter.com/1M7BvvCtd3
— #TV3GH (@tv3_ghana) August 8, 2024
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