Archbishop Nicholas Duncan Williams and Reverend Eastwood Anaba who’re all eminent members of the Board of Trustees of the Nationwide Cathedral venture have been reported to have known as for the suspension of the venture for an audit to be performed into its accounts.
Parts of a memo they wrote to the board mentioned “That within the spirit and reason for transparency and accountability to the Ghanaian individuals, the present Board of Trustees of the Nationwide Cathedral shall appoint an unbiased, nationally recognised accounting agency to audit all public funds contributed to and spent by the Nationwide Cathedral.
“Auditors can even audit the general value of the venture. This appointment of an auditor shall happen earlier than the deferment of actions of the Board of Trustees.”
The memo added, “That present actions advancing the development of Ghana’s Nationwide Cathedral shall be deferred till the atmospherics in Ghana are improved and the audit of the Cathedral account is finished.”
This comes at a time North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has made a sequence of allegations in opposition to the Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the Nationwide Cathedral, Rev Kusi Boateng.
Mr Ablakwa introduced what he described as “unimpeachable” and “incontrovertible” proof in opposition to him.
In line with the opposition lawmaker, Rev Kusi Boateng is the third “thriller” director of JNS Expertise Cantre Restricted, a agency he had earlier accused of receiving GH¢2.6 million unlawful money switch from the Secretariat.
“Unimpeachable and incontrovertible proof confirms that Mr. Kwabena Adu Gyamfi is the well-known Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng who nonetheless serves on the Nationwide Cathedral Board as an Government Council Member/Director,” he mentioned.
For the avoidance of doubt, he added, there isn’t a distinct Kwabena Adu Gyamfi. Kwabena Adu Gyamfi is a prison creation of Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng.
The 2 are due to this fact one and the identical, he mentioned.
“Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng AKA Kwabena Adu Gyamfi thought he had outwitted each Ghanaian, significantly our authorities whom he dribbled for a few years; however the day of reckoning is lastly right here.”
Mr Ablakwa additional petitioned the Fee for Human Rights and Administrative Justice ( CHRAJ) to look into the matter.
However responding to him in an announcement, Rev Kusi Boateng who denied the allegations mentioned he appears ahead to CHRAJ’s probe.
“I want to guarantee the general public that the assertion made by Mr Ablakwa are a twisted narration of occasions to pursue a malicious political agenda. There has by no means been any prison intent nor any crime dedicated in my dealings with the federal government of Ghana or Nationwide Cathedral,” he mentioned.
By Laud Nartey/3news.com/Ghana
