The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has claimed that the National Cathedral mission will cost the taxpayer a complete of $1 billion and not $400 million as claimed by the federal government and members of the board of trustees.
Mr Ablakwa who has on a number of events raised points with the relevance of the National Cathedral stated on Face to Face on Citi TV on Tuesday that the $400 million being bandied round by the federal government as the full cost of the mission utterly ignores a number of different components that shoot the full cost previous $1 billion.
“It is going to cost the taxpayer about one billion dollars and this is the amount that Mills-Mahama government used for the gas project and this is what this government is doing with it,” Mr Ablakwa instructed Umaru Sanda Amadu.
The North Tongu MP famous that the $400 million does not embrace the cost of relocation of the Judges’ bungalows, the $50 million wanted for the relocation of the Judicial Training Institute and the $10 million to relocate the passport workplace.
He added that Waterstone Complex which had its places of work demolished to make means for the cathedral can be in courtroom suing the federal government for $120 million and in addition hundreds of thousands of {dollars} wanted to relocate the Comsys workplace and the residence of the Malian Ambassador.
Mr Ablakwa indicated that the full cost of all these quantities together with modifications to the mission such because the Biblical backyard and the museum will shoot the full cost from $400 million to over $1 billion.
The National Cathedral mission has been engulfed in a number of controversies and has additionally confronted stiff opposition with a piece of the general public being of the view that the mission is not related contemplating Ghana’s financial woes.
But President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has on quite a few events acknowledged that he’ll construct the cathedral whatever the opposition from the general public.
The Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral on Tuesday resolved to topic the mission to a “normal statutory audit”.
This follows what the Board says are current nagging points which have enveloped the development course of.
It has engaged the companies of audit agency, Deloitte for the audit work to start.
“The Board is already in discussions to engage Deloitte, which accepted to be the auditors when the National Cathedral was registered, to commence the normal statutory audit”, the Board by means of its Chairman, Apostle Prof. Opoku Onyinah stated in an announcement.
The Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Rev. Kusi Boateng has additionally been fingered by Okudzeto Ablakwa for having a number of identities and receiving some 2.6 million cedis for no work completed.
Two members of the Board of Trustees – Founder and Leader of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams and Rev. Eastwood Anaba, President of the Eastwood Anaba Ministries have referred to as for a right away suspension of the development of the National Cathedral pending an audit of the mission.
Source: citinewsroom.com
