Flagbearer of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama has asked President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to gather people who support his ideology to build his National Cathedral rather than using state funds.
According to him, state funds allocated for the project should rather be used to revamp Ghana's education sector.
“The President said that he pledged to God that if he won the election, he would build a cathedral for him. So it is his pledge, and if he wants to build it, he must gather people who support that conviction to do that. And we were told that public funds were not going to be used for the cathedral," he said.
“But eventually, we found that the Minister of Finance was releasing public taxes. We can’t use public funds, including the funds of people of other denominations, to build a cathedral for Christians alone," Mahama said while addressing religious leaders in Wa as part of the “Building Ghana Tour” in the Upper West Region.
Adding that, “So far, 58 million dollars of public funds have been spent just to dig a deep hole, and you have to ask yourself, is it justified in this day and age when children don’t have desks in schools when children do not have textbooks?.”
“For five years, we have not provided our basic schools with textbooks, even though we have come out with a new curriculum, because we say there is no money, and you say we should use 450 million dollars to build a Cathedral, even God will be angry with us.”
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com
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A man that claims to be a Christian must not speak foolishness because of politics. Everything in Ghana is politicized even naming of schools.
No man, born of a woman,can speak for God Almighty!!!
@Kay I have been following the planning and construction of the National Cathedral. The government backtracked on not using public funds but when they did, the Finance Minister publicly indicated it in parliament in 2018 and the seed money was approved by our MPs. At worse, they changed their mind, it wasn't a lie. Thus it isn't an issue in my eyes.
Funny man
The issue is not about using public funds to build a national cathedral for Christians alone. We have equally used on yearly basis public funds to send Muslims to Mecca. The issue is that did government tell us the truth from the beginning? Not being transparent from the onset and shrouding the sources of funding in secrecy is the main issue. Secondly, there was nothing wrong for the president to have declared that it was a priority project in his vision for the state and solicited support from the Christian community, with clear understanding what the state's role would be, which could have gone to parliament for approval.