The brave warrior and a loud silence driller is on top again. what an in-depth analysis from Domelevo
In regards to Cecilia Dapaah's case, former Auditor General Daniel Domelevo is urging the public to hold off on jumping to conclusions and proceed with caution.
Investigations are still ongoing, therefore it's possible that later revelations by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) could "mitigate" some revelations that have already been made public through the OSP's legal process, claims Mr. Domelevo.
The former Auditor General remarked, "From my perspective, the details are out too early, speaking on JoyNews' Newsfile. I wish these facts had been revealed before the prosecution ever began. They are currently looking into it. All of this material is public despite the investigation still being ongoing.
He highlighted that it will be preferable for any Ghanaian to exercise caution with the matter in order to avoid contempt of court and other legal infractions, even if he said it was good that the OSP is keeping the population informed of any new developments.
He also indicated that the law creating the position might have been written to allow the Special Prosecutor to withhold some information from the public until a formal prosecution begins.
He [OSP] might find further proof that cancels out or weakens the preceding one. His final stance is that going to court might be different. Therefore, I wondered if it was possible to achieve that, Mr. Domelevo said.
As a result, Mr. Domelevo emphasised that the Special Prosecutor's Office is a new organisation without a history or set of precedents to draw upon.
He claimed that given the office's inexperience, the OSP was obliged to make some errors in the performance of his duties and he begged Ghanaians for their forgiveness.
Additionally, Mr. Domelevo pleaded with Ghanaians to grant the OSP "breathing space" so that he could perform his duty.
The former Auditor General also attributed the seeming back-and-forth the OSP is experiencing in his efforts to look into the Cecilia Dapaah matter to the inefficiency of the assets declaration process.
If the assets declaration had been valid, the OSP's investigation would have gone more smoothly, claims Mr. Domelevo.
"I believe some of the claims extend as far back as 2005 or 2003 if the [Assets] declaration was properly done and confirmed. She may have served in the preceding NPP administration at that time. Therefore, it would have aided the investigation if we had gone to see if those things had been declared, correctly confirmed, and existed.
It would therefore have been public information. Since those times, we would all have known that she had these things, and there is nothing new to discuss about it, he emphasised.
In order to check and make public officers accountable for their lifestyles, Mr Domelevo proposed that a lifestyle audit be conducted for those who hold public office.
Mr. Domelevo made this statement in response to recent court records filed by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), which indicated that money was being sent to the former Minister of Sanitation from a bank account that belonged to his deceased brother.
The former Minister is supposedly in possession of millions of cedis, the source of which the Office of the Special Prosecutor claims she was unable to prove, according to exclusive copies of documents obtained by JoyNews and filed in court by the OSP.
OSP claims that Cecilia Dapaah's deceased brother's account is still paying money to a previous minister.
The Office has made several attempts to corroborate the confiscation of allegedly tainted properties belonging to Madam Dapaah, but this is the most recent.
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