A Letter To Madam Dapaah

By Desmond Adom
My Dear Madam Abena Dapaah, I am writing this letter with the heaviest of hearts as I can resonate with you on how you are feeling right now. Loosing such an amount of money is very depressing and can cause one to have a heart attack.

But I know you are strong and have rather taken the issue to the appropriate place which is the court. Without the step you took, this revelation in the public domain would have probably died with you.

For this effort I commend you, but what follows is not something I am very proud to commend you on. It is why you hoarded such an amount of money in your house when you knew the consequences. Madam, as a public servant you should have known better. You should know that having such a huge amount in your house as a minister will arouse questions.

No well- meaning Ghanaian will applaud you for keeping such an amount of money in your house as a servant of the state when you are well aware of the sufferings in the country. Madam as a sanitation minister tasked with the responsibility of keeping the nation clean, you sure did not do a good job of keeping your public service clean.

You see I have doubts as to whether the money claimed to have been stolen was acquired legally. This is because why will you keep such an amount in your house whilst there is an economy ready to swallow it all for the betterment of the nation. There are banks that are ready to receive the money to supplement their operations, businesses which need investing into so they can grow. The money could have been of greater use to the nation if it was not hoarded for it to have been stolen later on.

Maybe you were afraid that as a public servant, public knowledge of such an amount in your domain could have generated a lot of questions. But all the same the public have gotten to know thanks to your own kind gesture of sending it to the law court.

Why you are saying that the amount is not as it is being reported is the only thing that baffles me right now. It will be misleading on your path for you to think that Ghanaians will sit down unconcerned. Any country which will shut its mouth on such an issue does not want development.

Because for a public servant to have all this money in her home when she knows she is for the state and owes all her allegiance to the state is rather questionable. So I will plead with you madam, do not let that thought cross your mind.

The issue which we all are previewed to is at the Accra Circuit Court with five people standing trial, your two house helps and some three other individuals. Madam Dapaah you did not discount the number of people standing trial, but rather discounted the figures involved. I doubt the Chronicle will report differently on a pending matter in court.

You have assured us to comply with all state agencies who will take interest in the matter. The bitter truth here is that you do not have a choice madam.

I know for sure that, when declaring your assets as a public officer you did not include the amount we are all talking about now. So why was that bit not included? Were you afraid of proving its source? Or you were too busy to have answered the questions that would have come with it.

Well it is questions time madam, so start giving us answers.

My dear Madam Cecilia Dapaah, as a son of the soil I am pleading with you to agree with all the terms of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). Come clean as you have already promised so that your name will be exonerated.

At least shame all of the critics including me who believe that the money you harbored in your house was gained illegally and also provide answers why you did not put the money in the bank. If you do so we all will be proud of you.

My dear Madam Dapaah, do not take the processes to heart because as a politician you too would have called for the head of anybody from the opposition party if he /she was found culpable.

As the President said, I wish you all the best in your next endeavors. But in your next service in any entity, please put all or most of your money in the bank.