Scholars rejected Gyamfi-Dapaah scandal comparisons, warnings of state prisoners

The legal professor of the University of Ghana, Kwadwo Appiagie-Iatua, has released attempts to equate the controversy of the Sammy Gyamfi dollars with the corruption case of the former sanitary minister Cecilia Dapaah and describe such comparisons “apples to banana”.

Continue to speak Keyp options with Alfred Ocansey On May 17th, he emphasized fundamental differences between the two scandals.

“In Dapapaah's case, money was physically found in her house, which led to an OSP examination. Gyamfi's incident contains a donation with unproven relationships with misconduct,” he said. Appiagyei-A-Atua criticized the assertion that the Akufo Adddo administration would have treated the Gyamfi case impartial if the roles were the other way around: “We all know that this is wrong to prefer a party to prefer a party.”

The professor warned against connecting the cases without evidence and asked the NPP to avoid its political immune system. He also accused the NPP of enabling “state capture” and claimed that the party's financiers influenced important decisions during their term. “Laws and guidelines were shaped by financiers, not of public interest. The government had no control,” he said.

When recognizing that the elements of state capture remain under the current NDC government, Appiagagie-an-Atua emphasized that no party should be due to relativeization of scandals. “The NPP cannot claim moral superiority here,” he said.

His comments underline the tensions in the political discourse in Ghana, in which the allegations of corruption are increasingly rejected to distract the accountability. The debate underlines broader challenges in promoting transparent governance among partisans rivalries.