President Nana Akufo-Addo has accepted the resignation of Cecilia Dapaah as minister of sanitation and water resources following a newspaper report that $1 million, €300,000 and several millions of Ghana cedis were stolen from her home.

"President Akufo-Addo applauded Hon. Cecilia Dapaah's loyalty to the image and standing of his government and thanked her also for her wholehearted contribution and devotion to the progress of government and the nation", Jubilee House Communications Director Eugene Arhin wrote on Facebook.

Mr Arhin said the president "wished her well in all her endeavours".

He announced that the president "will soon appoint a new minister for sanitation and water resources".

'I'll be exonerated': Dapaah says, 'I'll cooperate fully with probe' into $1m, €300k scandal

In her resignation letter, Cecilia Dapaah said "whereas I can state emphatically" that the figures mentioned in the news report "do not represent correctly what my husband and I reported to the police", she is "very much aware of the import of such stories around someone in my position", thus, her decision to resign.

"I intend to cooperate fully with all state agencies to enable them fully establish the facts", she announced, adding: "I have no doubt whatsoever that at the end of the processes, it will be fully established that I have conducted myself with integrity during my period in public service and I will be fully exonerated from all the allegations that have filled the public domain in the past 24 hours".

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