Two eminent clergymen and members of the Board of Trustees of the controversial Nationwide Cathedral mission have referred to as for its rapid suspension for a reputable audit within the spirit and explanation for transparency and accountability to the Ghanaian individuals”.
The 2 – Archbishop Duncan Williams and Reverend Eastwood Anaba defined that their name relies on the controversies surrounding the mission.
In response to them, the suspension will pave the best way for transparency and accountability to be supplied to the Ghanaian individuals.
In a memo despatched to the Board of Trustees on Monday, January 23, and sighted by MyJoyOnline.com, they referred to as for impartial audit into the expenditures of the mission.
The 2 revered preachers mentioned the auditor(s) should be one that’s nationally recognised.
“That within the spirit and explanation for transparency and accountability to the Ghanaian individuals, the present Board of Trustees of the Nationwide Cathedral shall appoint an impartial, nationally recognised accounting agency to audit all public funds contributed to and spent by the Nationwide Cathedral.
“Auditors will even audit the general price of the mission. This appointment of an auditor shall happen earlier than the deferment of actions of the Board of Trustees,” excerpts of the memo mentioned.
In the meantime, the 2 Bible students additionally mentioned the mission shouldn’t proceed till the financial circumstances within the nation is improved.
“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 completed,” excerpts of the memo added.
The Nationwide Cathedral Undertaking has been one of the vital controversial public points because the mission was first introduced by President Akufo-Addo.
Other than questions of accountability which have been repeatedly raised by the Minority in Parliament, there have additionally been issues in regards to the relevance of the mission, within the face of the nation’s financial disaster.
Amidst the plethora of points, founding father of the LightHouse Chapel Worldwide, Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, resigned from the Cathedral’s Board of Trustee in August 2022.
In so doing, the preacher didn’t assign any particular purpose for his departure; leaving the general public to depend on their very own conjectures and speculations about why the celebrated man of God left the scene.
Nonetheless, after 5 months of his resignation, the Bishop’s justifications for exiting the Board have been revealed.
The seasoned Bible trainer famous in his resignation letter which seems to have been leaked not too long ago that his unresolved issues about the price of the Nationwide Cathedral and different pertinent points triggered his exit.
The mentioned letter was addressed by the Bishop to the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nationwide Cathedral.
“I really feel that the remedy of the problems I’ve raised in my a number of letters has been unlucky. My letters have been ignored up to now; not attended to for years, and at finest addressed flippantly”, Dag Heward-Mills mentioned.
“Chances are you’ll recall I’ve spoken passionately and written extensively in regards to the prices, the design, the placement, the fundraising, the mobilization of the church buildings, and the function of the trustees.
“These, if heeded, would have made our mission extra achievable. Usually talking, my inputs, my opinions, and my letters have been trivialized and put aside”, parts of the letter additional disclosed.
