Special Prosecutor (SP) Kissi Agyabeng, has made his first appearance at the High Court in Accra in a case in which former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah and family are seeking an interlocutory injunction against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). 

The former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah and husband, Daniel Osei Kuffuor filed the application for interlocutory injunction against the Office of the Special Prosecutor after the OSP has seized and frozen her accounts.

The couple per the application filed is seeking among other things, that the OSP’s re-seizure of their money initially seized on July 24 and re-freezing of their bank accounts on September 5, 2023, is unfair and unlawful. 

In Court on Tuesday, January 9, 2024 before Justice Owusu Adu Agyemang, Kissi Agyabeng, the SP was present in court for the first time. 

The case was adjourned to February 1, 2024 after the case was held in-camera but it was not clear why the adjournment. At the last Court sitting, on December 5, last year, Prosecutors of the OSP asked the court for an adjournment due to certain developments.

Cecilia Dapaah and her husband per the application filed are seeking among other things, that the OSP’s re-seizure of their money initially seized on July 24 and re-freezing of their bank accounts on September 5, 2023, is unfair and unlawful.

According to reports the Applicants; Cecilia Dapaah and her husband Daniel Osei Kuffuor were both absent while the Special Prosecutor was present. 

The High Court presided over by Justice Joseph Adu Agyemang Owusu has since adjourned the case to January 9, 2024.

Subject matter

The former Minister argued that her application for Judicial review was necessitated by the OSP’sprejudicial and arbitrary conduct from the inception of his investigations into corruption and corruption-related offences allegedly involving her and the husband.

She said, the action is also to prevent further violation of her constitutionally guaranteed rights and rendering her application for Judicial review otiose, “it is imperative that the Respondent is restrained from continuing his investigation pending the determination of my said Application.” 

“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.

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