Critics of former minister of Sanitation and Water Resources Cecilia Dapaah have been roundly lambasted by attorney Maurice Ampaw for the suspected theft of funds totaling US$1 million, €300,000, and 350,000 Ghana cedis from her private property.

Ampaw claims that people criticizing the former minister are hypocrites because many Ghanaians actually have large quantities of cash stashed away in their residences.

“Today if you ask for money from any Ghanaian, the person will tell you that hthey don't have money, but the kind of money that people are having in this country…though a lot of people are suffering, most of them have money, they are…loaded.

“The hypocrisy of Ghanaians, you are all hypocrites, the monies that you people have that you have kept in your various homes…but you people are condemning Cecilia Dapaah as if she has committed a crime. If you like let us start with every politician in this country.”

He added “Cecilia Dapaah’s US$1 million is someone’s chicken change money; someone spends much more than that money in less than one month. I was a lawyer for one of the collapsed banks and the owner disclosed to me that his wage bill alone is sixty-six billion Ghana cedis, wage bill alone, what is one million Ghana cedis?"

“Shameless people, because of propaganda even today Mahama is also doing propaganda, You, President Mahama, look at the hypocrisy of President Mahama. President Mahama US$1 million is just a day's money for you…because today you NDC people don’t have money and you are hungry…. for how many years from 2016 until now? How many years have you been in opposition?

“You people had money from 2008 to 2012, NDC, you made money and kept them in your houses same as Cecilia Dapaah did, some of you, hypocrisy all the NDC people,” he added.

The former minister revealed why she decided to resign in her letter of resignation to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, saying that the problems with the money could have a negative impact on the government.

She did, however, point out that the theft issue in her home has been greatly overstated in many accounts.

"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 my home. 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 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," parts of the letter read.