EOCO is the headquarters of corruption — Security analyst, Adam Bona

The Speaker of Parliament has been urged by security analyst Dr. Adam Bona to look into the actions of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) in light of the ongoing issue over the money hoard found at the residence of former Minister Cecilia Dapaa.

Dr. Bona claimed that EOCO did not look into the situation; instead, it merely waited for the warrant allowing the OSP to withhold the money to expire before giving the money back to Madam Cecelia Dapaa.

The security analyst said in a social media video that a nonpartisan parliamentary investigation into the matter would assist reveal the truth about EOCO’s operations and provide light on other incidents within the anti-fraud office.

“I am calling on the Right Hon. Speaker of Parliament to institute a probe into the Cecelia Dapaa cash saga. I have a feeling EOCO is not telling us the truth. I now can say with certainty that EOCO has also become the headquarters of corruption. There’s the need to investigate what happened between these two institutions under the executive; EOCO and Special Prosecutor are all under the Attorney General and so to have EOCO being handed the file to investigate this under money laundering which falls under them and to have them come back to tell us that they couldn’t do anything about it is mind boggling and so as citizen and not a spectator I will ask Parliament to institute a probe into them,” Dr. Bona noted.

He emphasized that there are other issues at EOCO that Ghanaians are unaware of, and he hoped that an investigation would assist shed light on them.

“There are a lot of things going on at EOCO that some of us find unfortunate. The boss of EOCO is not telling Ghanaians the truth, she is telling us half truths about the money we are talking about,” Dr. Bona said.

“There are many unsettling occurrences at EOCO that have yet to come to light. The head of EOCO is not providing the public with the whole truth; rather, she is only offering partial information regarding the money in question.”

Regarding their separate roles in looking into the source of the sizeable cash discovered in the former Sanitation Minister’s residence, EOCO and the Office of the Special Prosecutor have been publicly at odds over the past week.

EOCO has been charged by the Special Prosecutor’s office for not having the will to pursue the case.