-As Attempt To Equalise “Cathedral Of Lies” With Nations Mosques Backfires
The Chief Executive Officer of the National Cathedral, Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah has been forced to eat humble pie by apologizing profusely for suggesting that the Muslim community in Ghana had dipped its hands in public funds to build the National Mosque in Nima-Accra.
“I retract, and apologise, for the use of ‘state facilitation’ in my response, and deeply regret the pain it might have caused the [Coalition of Muslim Organisations Ghana] and the Muslim Umma in Ghana,” Dr. Opoku-Mensah said in a statement issued on Monday, June 13, 2022.
Speaking on a shambolic publicity stunt programme on GTV, Dr. Opoku-Mensah had suggested that the government of Ghana “facilitated the construction of the National Mosque in his attempt to justify the open robbery of taxpayers’ money by the Akufo Addo administration to build an obnoxious National Cathedral.
However, as soon as he made such an unsubstantiated statement, the Muslim community went after him,
The Coalition of Muslim Organizations – Ghana (COMOG) described him as a liar and a peddler of “falsehood” for suggesting that the government contributed money towards the construction of the national mosque.
In a statement signed by President of COMOG, Hajj Abdel-Manan Abdel Rahman, the group said that not a pesewa from the State contributed to the construction of the National Mosque at Kanda in Accra.
“We, the Coalition of Muslim Organizations, Ghana (COMOG), on behalf of all Muslims organizations in Ghana wish to state unequivocally, and without any fear or favour that, not a single pesewa from the State by any political regime was contributed to the construction of the Kanda National Mosque,” COMOG slammed the dishonest Opoku-Mensah.
“…The CEO of the National Cathedral made this statement in an attempt to justify the sum of over GHc25 million of State resources as seed money for the construction of the most controversial project in Ghana today, the National Cathedral,” COMOG jabbed the CEO of the controversial Christian edifice.
The Akufo-Addo government has already been in the news for secretly funneling taxpayers’ money into his private thanksgiving project-the National Cathedral which is a personal project he promised to embark on to thank his deity for allowing him to win the 2016 presidential elections.
Already, a whopping Ghc200million has reportedly been blown on the project, including some staggering Ghc32million secretly paid as consultancy fees to Sir David Adjaye and Associates without the project taking off.
In fact, the lead contractor for the project, RIBADE Ltd. has served notice they are abandoning the contract because this same thieving government which has reportedly secreted some Ghc200million to the project, has not been making money available.