Investigative journalist, Manasseh Azure is unimpressed by the nature in which the President’s letter accepting Cecilia Dapaah’s resignation was worded.

According to him, the soft welcoming tone use by President Akufo-Addo suggests that the ongoing investigation may amount to nothing.

The minister resigned from her position on July 22, after reports emerged that she had stashed huge sums of money in her home, part of which had allegedly been stolen by two house helps now facing prosecution alongside other accomplices.

In her letter addressed to the President, Madam Dapaah explained that she decided to step down because she did not want this matter “to become a preoccupation of government and a hindrance to the work of government.”

However, President Akufo-Addo in accepting her resignation praised her for her loyalty and excellent work done during her tenure and also expressed his confidence in the former Minister’s integrity, suggesting also that he was hopeful her integrity would be intact after official investigations.

But speaking on Joy FM, the journalist said "the President trying to vouch for the person's integrity and almost say that I know you come out clean... I think is problematic and can prejudice the trial."

Manasseh says this intonation extends to the Minister's resignation letter which appears to disregard the gravity of the issue at hand by the use of words like 'I thank you my dear, Mr President' among others.

He further believes that the Attorney General's seeming interest in the case will not add any value since he is an appointee of the president.

"And even now that the Attorney General is stepping in, and we know that Attorney General is the President's appointee," he added on the Super Morning Show on Monday, July 31.

He is not the first to raise such an issue.

• Akufo-Addo’s comments espousing Cecilia Dapaah’s innocence ‘very unnecessary’ – Andy Appiah-Kubi 

Asante-Akim North MP Andy Appiah-Kubi also said President Akufo-Addo’s comments extolling and affirming the integrity of the immediate past Sanitation and Water Resources Minister, Cecilia Dapaah, is unnecessary.

“The president’s comments were very unnecessary. If he had any comments, he could have given to another person that he had. But putting those comments out was very unnecessary because if the state institutions finds her culpable, would the president eat back his words? Again, that is his opinion but I wouldn’t do that because it’s unnecessary and kind of prejudicial,” he said on Accra-based TV3.