Abrogate Nat’l Cathedral Project – Minority Demands | Parliament

The Minority in Parliament has known as on the gov­ernment to abrogate the National Cathedral challenge.

The caucus mentioned one yr for the reason that contractors left website, the federal government should come to the realisation that the challenge had grow to be moribund.

“A year is enough time for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to come to the realisation that the project remains a castle in the air, it remains a pipe dream and it remains an infeasible project particularly considering our economy circumstances.

“It is time to close shop, time to totally abandon the project because it cannot be complet­ed as scheduled,” lead advocate in opposition to the Cathedral Project and MP for North Tongu within the Volta Region, Okudzeto Ablakwa, advised journalists at a press convention in parliament yesterday.

According to him, what was much more worrying was the de­tails of the contract which locations obligation on the nation in delays which may be occasioned by the employer.

“As this project remains sus­pended, the already suffocating taxpayer is being burdened with more cost,one year of remarkable inactivity comes at considerable cost as per analysis, it will cost extramillions of dollars,” Mr Ab­lakwa pressured.

He famous that contemplating the delays and related value of services that have been pulled right down to make approach for building of the cathedral, the challenge may value onebillion {dollars}.

“That is why we are saying President Akufo-Addo on the first anniversary of inactivity, we demand they abrogate the contract because we believe as long as the contractors continue to hold valid contracts, it is extra burden to the Ghanaian taxpayer.

“The need for the project to be discontinued is imperative, considering the economic cir­cumstances of the country since we have defaulted on our loans, we have been declared bankrupt, for the first time we can’t procure vaccines for our babies, yet the government is refusing to abro­gate the national cathedral project which has become a pipe dream,” Mr Ablakwa acknowledged.

The caucus, he defined, with the financial challenges have been of the conviction that “it’s time this challenge is abrogated, cancelled, the board of trustees dissolved, the secretariat closed down, all people ought to be requested to go residence and allow us to get monetary savings.

Mr Ablakwa indicated that the tens of millions of {dollars} that was being gathered (within the title of this challenge) was not value it as a result of it was essentially the most reckless factor to do on the time of nationwide eco­nomic predicament

Source: Ghanaiantimes.com.gh

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