- The Chief Justice has been asked by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to withdraw Justice Edward Twum from overseeing the case of Cecilia Abena Dapaah, the former Minister of Sanitation and Water Resources.
- Justice Twum was asked to step out from the case in a letter from the OSP to Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo.
- In a case where the OSP accused Dapaah of not declaring her assets when she was a minister, the court is anticipated to hear her plea. All of the OSP’s prior proceedings brought against the former minister were heard by Justice Twum.
- On August 31, Justice Twum denied the OSP’s request to have Dapaah’s accounts frozen, citing the OSP’s inability to produce any legal justification for the account block.
- After police prosecuted two house helps who worked for Dapaah and her husband for allegedly taking property and money worth millions of Ghanaian cedis from their Abelemkpe mansion, the OSP started looking into Dapaah for corruption and corruption-related offenses.
