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The Minister for Sanitation and Water Resources, Cecilia Abena Dapaah has resigned following public bashing in the wake of a reported case of theft at her Abelenkpe residence involving her domestic workers.

This is contained in a letter issued and signed by the Minister on July 22, 2023.

The Minister is reported to have lodged a complaint with the police, following which the suspected domestic staff were arrested and arraigned before court charged with allegedly stealing monies including 1 million dollars and 300,000 euros and some other valuable items from her (minister's) private residence.

The matter has sparked public concerns including the minority NDC calling for her dismissal.

When the facts of the court case went viral, the embattled minister, in a statement released in Accra on Friday, 21st July 2023 said there are "noticeable inconsistencies between what is being discussed in the public domain and the thrust of the original complaint on the matter".

Hon Dapaah further indicated her resolve to examine the origins of the inconsistencies and provide a detailed response in the coming days.

However, on Saturday, July 22, 2023 the embattled Minister announced her resignation in a letter copied to the President.

"I am resigning therefore 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," portions of her resignation letter to the President read.
  
Read full letter below

Mr. President,

LETTER OF RESIGNATION

I write to inform you that I wish to resign from my position as Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources.

It has been a great privilege and honour for me to have been given the opportunity to serve in your government and an even greater honour to have worked to try and bring your great vision for our country to fruition.

Since yesterday, Friday, July 21, 2023, social and traditional media have been full of stories about a court case involving a theft that took place last year in the home I live with my husband and daughter. The stories sought to suggest that I own various huge sums of foreign currencies and millions of Ghana cedis which have been stolen from Whereas I can stale emphatically that those figures do notrepresent 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 am resigning therefore 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.

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.

I thank you my dear, Mr President, for the honour done me in giving me the opportunity to serve our beautiful nation Ghana.

Sincerely,

Cecila Abena Dapaah (MS)