Cecilia Dapaah, a former minister of sanitation, requests an expedited hearing on the Office of the Special Prosecutor’s appeal to validate the seizure of money discovered in her residence and the order to freeze her bank accounts.
She claims that the money’s confiscation and the blocking of her accounts have caused her difficulty, stress, and embarrassment, and continue to do so.
She stated this in a request to shorten the time allotted for the application hearing.
After the High Court rejected a related claim and directed the anti-corruption agency to unfreeze her bank accounts and give her the money that had been seized, the Office of the Special Prosecutor filed the current application.
Cecilia Dapaah disputes the use of aliases in the real estate industry.
The office, however, re-seized the money and re-froze the bank accounts moments after adhering to the court’s direction. After this, the application for confirmation was filed on September 11, and the case was scheduled to be heard on October 18.
But in her application for abridgement, Cecilia Dapaah indicated that every day’s delay in determining the motion would cause her further hardship.
She proposed that the case be heard on October 11.
Meanwhile, she has described as misleading the claims by the Office of the Special Prosecutor that she is involved in real estate business with aliases and that the bank accounts of her brother continue to transfer money to her even after his death.
These are contained in an affidavit in opposition to the application for the confirmation of the re-seized GH¢2.83 million and the re-frozen bank accounts of Cecilia Dapaah.
