SOURCE: GNA
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Parliamentary Minority Caucus on the House’ Select Committee on Trade, Industry and Tourism, has by a majority vote, rejected GHS80 million budgetary allocation in the 2023 Budget for the National Cathedral project.
Mr. Yusif Sulemana, Deputy Ranking Member for Parliament Select on Trade, Industry and Tourism, NDC Member of Parliament for Bole, announced this to Parliamentary Press Corps at Parliament House, in Accra.
“We have voted against it and we are saying that this is not the time for us to be spending that huge sum of money on building a Cathedral, “Mr. Sulemana said.
He said they were not satisfied with the explanation on how the GHS339 million was spent on the project.
He noted that Committee was formed that the Government had now placed the Cathedral project under Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture.
“And the question I put to them was that, that organization that is handling this Cathedral, the secretariat, is it under the Ministry of Tourism?”.
He reiterated that NDC minority was not against the Ministry of Tourism’s budget.
The National Cathedral is a historic project that provides a sacred space and infrastructure for the formal religious activities for the nation, like state funerals and presidential inaugural services according to its secretariat.
It is this national character that distinguishes it from other Cathedrals in the country.
It is a vision of the President for a sacred National infrastructure, linking it to the path breaking design of iconic Architect Sir David Adjaye OBE, and organically anchoring these in world class programs, according to the secretariat.
It includes Africa’s first Museum of the Bible whose development is supervised by Cary Summers , the founding President of the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC.
