According to TV3’s Parliamentary Correspondent Komla Klutse, who witnessed the approval during the debate on the 2023 budget statement on Wednesday, December 21, the government has diverted the contentious GHS80 million that was intended for the construction of the National Cathedral into the communication and road sectors.
Prior to this, on Tuesday, December 20, Ranking Member Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah of the Joint Committee on Trade, Industry, and Tourism dedicated to Ghanaians a Minority voting decision to reject the budget estimates for the construction of the National Cathedral as contained in the 2023 budget statement.
He claimed that because earlier funding for the project had not been properly accounted for, the judgement was a triumph for all Ghanaians.
Eleven Minority MPs as against 10 Majority MPs, therefore, voted to reject the GH¢80-million allocation for the continuation of the project.
Commenting on this development, Member of Parliament for North Tongu Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said “Government compelled to withdraw and reallocate the obnoxious and dubious GHS80million for President Akufo-Addo’s Cathedral to the Roads and Communications sectors.
“We won this battle for God and the suffering masses. Thank you all for your unflinching support.”
Government compelled to withdraw and reallocate the obnoxious and dubious GHS80million for President Akufo-Addo’s Cathedral to the Roads and Communications sectors.
We won this battle for God and the suffering masses.
Thank you all for your unflinching support.
— Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa (@S_OkudzetoAblak) December 21, 2022
