President Akufo-Addo has accepted the resignation of Cecilia Dapaah as the Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources. 

The President in accepting her resignation dated Saturday, July 2023, thanked her for her loyalty to his government’s image. 

This is according to the Director of Communications at the presidency, Mr Eugene Arhin. 

Mr Arhin in a Facebook on Saturday said President Akufo-Addo also wishes Madam Cecilia Dapaah well in her future endeavors. 

“The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has accepted the resignation from office of Hon. Cecilia Abena Dapaah as Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources and member of Government.”

“President Akufo-Addo applauded Hon. Cecilia Dapaah’s loyalty to the image and standing of his government, and thanked her also for her wholehearted contribution and devotion to the progress of government and the nation. He wished her the best in all her endeavours.”

Mr Arhin added that the President Akufo-Addo will soon nominate Madam Dapaah's replacement.

“The President will soon appoint a new Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources.”

Madam Dapaah submitted her resignation a day after she became the talk of town because her house helps had allegedly stolen huge sums of foreign and local currencies from her residence in Accra.

In her resignation letter, she said she decided to step down “because I do not want this matter to become a preoccupation of government and a hindrance to the work of government at such a crucial time.”

Two house helps of the Minister and three others are currently facing charges before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly stealing an amount of $1 million, €300,000, and millions of Ghanaian cedis at the former minister’s residence at Abelenkpe, Accra, in October 2022.

The house helps, 18-year-old Patience Botwe and 30-year-old Sarah Agyei allegedly stole the monies and personal effects of Abena Dapaah and her husband, between the months of July and October 2022.

However, Cecilia Dapaah says there were inaccuracies in the figures being reported in the media.

“Whereas I can state emphatically that those figures do not represent correctly what my husband and I reported to the Police, I am very much aware of the import of such stories around someone in my position.”

“I intend to cooperate fully with all state agencies to enable them fully establish the facts. I have no doubt whatsoever that at the end of the processes, it will be fully established that I have conducted myself with integrity during my period in public service and I will be fully exonerated from all the allegations that have filled the public domain in the past 24 hours.”