Archbishop Duncan Williams and Reverend Eastwood Anaba, who are both members of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral project, have called for the suspension of the project.
The two have also called for an independent audit of the project.
In a memo that has gone viral on social media, the clergymen have argued that the suspension will pave the way for transparency and accountability to be provided to the Ghanaian people.
“That in the spirit and cause of transparency and accountability to the Ghanaian people, the current Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral shall appoint an independent, nationally recognised accounting firm to audit all public funds contributed to and spent by the National Cathedral.
“Auditors will also audit the overall cost of the project. This appointment of an auditor shall take place before the deferment of activities of the Board of Trustees.”
“That current activities advancing the construction of Ghana’s National Cathedral shall be deferred until the atmospherics in Ghana are improved and the audit of the Cathedral account is done,” excerpts of the memo added.
Prior to the memo from Archbishop Duncan Williams and Reverend Eastwood Anaba, Founder and Presiding Bishop of the Lighthouse Group of Churches, Bishop Dag also raised issues about the controversial National Cathedral.
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According to the respected preacher, who revealed that he had resigned from the board, even though he was a trustee and attended all meetings until his resignation, he was not involved in or privy to discussions on the financial and technical issues concerning the project.
“I have been a reachable and available trustee and attended every single meeting of trustees since the pandemic began, in person and by zoom, and the records will show that.”
“If I say that I, as a trustee, do not know many of the financial and technical issues concerning the Cathedral, it means the discussions about the National Cathedral were held by some people outside the trustees’ meeting or perhaps in a forum that I was not present or invited to”.
“On the one hand, the National Cathedral is said to be a Government of Ghana project, with the government taking financial decisions.” “Yet, on the other hand, at meetings, it is implied that the trustees have taken or participated in taking some decisions,” he said.
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