Cecilia Dapaah, the former minister of sanitation, has filed an application for an interlocutory order against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), asking the Office to stop taking her property until the criminal case against her is determined.
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An application filed by Madam Dapaah’s legal team is praying the court for an order of interlocutory injunction restraining the Office of the Special Prosecutor or “his officers, assigns and servants, whomsoever or otherwise howsoever from taking any step that will adversely affect or prejudice the Applicants/Applicants’ [Cecilia Dapaah’s] rights including their right to a fair trial, their right to protection from deprivation of property, and their right to administrative justice, until the final determination of this suit, upon the grounds set out in the accompanying affidavit and for any further order(s) as this court may deem fit.”
In an effort to stop the OSP from looking into and prosecuting her and her husband, Daniel Osei Kufuor, on charges of corruption and offences linked to corruption, Madame Dapaah filed a similar appeal on October 10.
The former Minister requested in her October lawsuit that the court rule that the September 5, 2023, bank account confiscation and refreezing was unfair, illogical, capricious, and arbitrary.
Madame Dapaah argued that damages would not be adequate to compensate her and that the court should approve her request in order to protect her property and personal rights.
“I am advised by Counsel that I have property and personal rights that need to be protected by this Honourable Court and that an order of injunction should be granted against the Respondent to prohibit and restrain him from further violating my rights until the determination of this matter.
“I am advised by Counsel that damages will be inadequate to compensate me if this application for injunction is not granted and judgment is subsequently entered in the Applicant’s favour.”
