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Cecilia Dapaah will not get her money from OSP – Martin Kpebu hints

Despite a High Court judgement last Thursday, private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has suggested that former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Abena Dapaah should forget about her money with the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

He stated that there are a thousand and one pieces of legislation that allow the OSP to keep the money while still continuing to freeze her bank accounts.

On Saturday, September 2, he stated this while participating in debates on The Keypoints on TV3/3FM.

Last Thursday, the Accra High Court’s Financial Division, presided over by Justice Edward Twum, denied the OSP’s application for confirmation of the freezing of Madam Abena Dapaah’s bank accounts.

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The Office’s seizure order was likewise dismissed by Justice Twum.

He claimed that there was no legal basis for the seizure of the property because the OSP entered the act incorrectly, and that there were no legitimate grounds to freeze the suspect’s bank accounts.

It claimed that the OSP’s action was based on speculation and a reaction to public sentiment, resulting in inadequate investigations.

As a result, the Office was instructed to disclose the property and accounts within seven days.

Mr Kpebu, on the other hand, claimed that the judge erred in holding the period for the return of the funds against the OSP.

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“I can give you a thousand and one examples where you see the law plain like this, you can read it, they say file your defence within 14 days, yet if you don’t file, they will take cost against you but it will be accepted.

“So, what the judge was supposed to have done was that he shouldn’t have held the seven days against the OSP,” he stressed.

He underscored how courts do not want their orders to be disobeyed, therefore always giving orders and rulings that are easily enforceable.

“There is one cardinal rule that the courts use: You don’t make orders that cannot be enforced. The courts don’t like orders that cannot be enforce at all,” he noted, stressing that the OSP can go around this order given by Justice Twum.

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“When the OSP takes your currency and you can’t explain, you forfeit it.

“So, there are so many tools available to the OSP that they can use and so Madam Dapaah will not get this money, so the judge should have been cognizant of that.”

The OSP is now holding $590,000 and GH2.73 million discovered after a search at Madam Abena Dapaah’s Abelemkpe house.

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