MP for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia
Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa is of the view that the Vice President of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia should be talking about retrieving monies paid for no work done on the National Cathedral.
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia while addressing the clergy in the Greater Accra Region impressed upon them to have a discussion with the government on how monies can be raised to complete the National Cathedral.
He believes the national edifice will do the country a lot of good and therefore there will be a need for collaboration between the Church and Government to complete it.
“The question on the National Cathedral is a very important one. The National Cathedral I have contributed to its construction personally. I believe it’s a very important thing for Ghana. But I think that as it stands now the Church has to come together with the government and let us sit done and talk about the way forward.
"The Church should sit down with the government and tell us how we can get private resources to complete the Cathedral. But I think it is possible, we should not say it is impossible. Let us all sit back together and figure out the way forward on how to complete this Cathedral. I think if we all come together we will figure it out. So I want all of us to come together and sit down and see the best way forward to generate the resources to complete because we can’t leave it where it is,” he said.
But reacting to this, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa who has been a watchdog exposing all the ills surrounding the National Cathedral said the Vice President should rather look at retrieving monies paid to people by the state for no work done on the National Cathedral.
“I thought that the Vice President would be telling us how they would retrieve our money, the $58.1 million. Ghanaians have been apprised of how huge sums of money were diverted to all kinds of characters.
"As we speak, a gentleman called Kari Samers is keeping our $6 million. The Vice President must be concerned, many architects in our country who are Christians, who are God-fearing if they were put together would have designed it for free to the glory of God. In one of the documents I intercepted just for redesigning one restaurant, David Ajaye was paid $5.7 million. So the Vice President should be talking about retrievals, that is what we want to hear,” he said.
