Minority To Initiate Impeachment Against Akufo-Addo Over Cathedral Of Lies

The Minority in Parliament is once more fanning rhetoric of initiating impeachment against President Nana Akufo-Addo over the dirty tricks that he has been using to spirit state money into building the national cathedral.

This was revealed by Ranking Member on the Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa on Power FM, Wednesday.

But critics think the Minority is simply blowing impotent hot air as similar threats in the past couple of years had simply fizzled out.

“There are consequences to breaching Article 178…These are not light matters; these are grave matters. The president himself, I doubt if he will escape the consequences of these acts; his leadership will come under scrutiny. We may have to initiate some impeachment votes. Fortunately, we have the numbers to start,” Okudzeto stated.

Speaking on TV XYZ, Ablakwa pointed out that since the government was exposed for secreting state money to build the Cathedral that Akufo-Addo claims he privately pledged to God, the Minority has produced concrete documentary evidence to nail the President.

The National Cathedral project has become a murky affair after it emerged that the government was secreting state money to fund it even though Mr. Akufo-Addo had publicly lied that the project would be funded privately.

Documents released by the Minority show that so far some Ghc200million of state cash has gone into the project. The money was secreted behind the back of Parliament.

Following the revelation, the National Cathedral Secretariat started a damage control, however, this has not been going well because the secretariat claimed that the Cathedral was for the state had backfired as the company’s profile shows it’s a private entity.

Despite all the money that has gone into it, however, the contractors working on the project have stopped saying the government has not been making available the needed funds.

According to Ablakwa, the whole scandal smacks of corrupt use of the cathedral as camouflage to steal from the people and that as a result, even private donations have stopped coming in.

“They have not accounted for the funds raised from private donations and other fundraising events. If this is not some looting opportunity…by now they should have accounted for the donations on the website of the National Cathedral,” he said.

Meanwhile, the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame has denied he was in a conflict of interest when he served as A Secretary to the National Cathedral Foundation and simultaneously served as a member of the Board of the Public Procurement Authority (PPA).

Consequently, he says that the conflict of interest allegation against him by North Ablakwa is false.

It would be recalled that the basis for Ablakwa’s accusation was the fact that the PPA Board on which Dame sat while serving as deputy to former AG Gloria Akuffo in 2018, was the same which had approved the sole sourcing of David Adjaye and his Adajye and Associates as designers for the cathedral.

As Ablakwa points out, at the time of the incorporation of the National Cathedral on July 18, 2019, Dame had both legs straddled on the National Cathedral Secretariat and the PPA which sole-sourced the project to Adjaye and Associates.

Mr. Dame in a long winding press statement agrees he served on both PPA and the National Cathedral Secretariat concurrently. However, in convoluted legalese that gets the head spinning, he explains that he served as Secretary on the National Cathedral Secretariat in a pro bono basis and so that cannot be deemed as a conflict of interest.