Sammy Gyamfi should be held to the same accountability standard as Cecilia Dapaah – Walewale MP

Dr. Kabiru Tia Mahama, Member of Parliament for Walewale, has called on the government to uphold consistency in its handling of public office conduct, claiming that the same standards used in the case of Cecilia Dapaah should be applied to the Acting CEO of the Ghana Gold Board, Sammy Gyamfi.

1. In an interview on Channel One’s Newsroom, monitored by Masemtvgh, Dr. Kabiru Tia referenced President John Mahama’s earlier decision to call for Cecilia Dapaah’s resignation after a scandal involving large sums of money found in her home, urging that the precedent must guide similar situations that involve his appointee.

He said, “The president took a decision to ask Madam Cecilia Dapaah to resign from her post so if that has happened in the past and now we have a senior government official, someone who spoke vehemently against the conduct of Madam Cecilia Dapaah, someone who has been at the forefront of economic discipline and cedi loyalty and issues about governance, you will expect such a person if he is doing the same thing to also be measured by the same standard,”

According to him, fairness and accountability are important, and he warns against the selective application of disciplinary action based on political alignment.

“We cannot measure Cecilia Dapaah on one standard and we try to measure Mr Sammy Gyamfi on a different standard,” he added.