{"id":1108742,"date":"2022-06-03T07:08:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/03\/govt-gives-gh25-million-to-start-building-the-national-cathedral\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T07:08:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T07:08:21","slug":"govt-gives-gh25-million-to-start-building-the-national-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/03\/govt-gives-gh25-million-to-start-building-the-national-cathedral\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t gives GH25 million to start building the National Cathedral \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h3><strong>The government has given the National Cathedral Secretariat permission to use GH25 million as extra seed money for the building of the National Cathedral.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>In a letter to the Controller and Accountant\u2019s General, signed by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, the money was told to be given to Ribade Limited as part payment for claims that were still owed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are authorized to release the sum of GH25,000,000.00 to the National Cathedral Secretariat as additional seed money for the building of the National Cathedral as part payment of outstanding claims from RIBADE Limited,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_255417\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255417\" style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255417\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1147\"  data-lazy- src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/D1F1CFE6-4221-42C5-9A77-517F07F379A4-e1654192981409.jpg\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-255417\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/D1F1CFE6-4221-42C5-9A77-517F07F379A4-e1654192981409.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"1147\"  \/><\/noscript><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-255417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">National Cathedral seed money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On records, somewhere in the month of March 2017, the incumbent gov\u2019t proposed the National Cathedral project as a way to show how the country is united, at peace, and spiritual.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>The $350 million multi-religious cathedral will have an auditorium with room for 5,000 people, chapels, and a baptistery.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to finish it by March 2024. People have said that it was a bad idea for President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to build the National Cathedral when the country was facing so many problems.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In defense of himself, the President has said that the building is part of a promise he made to God before the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Holm, a businessman, went to the Supreme Court to argue against the government\u2019s decision to give the land and other help to the cathedral\u2019s builders.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2020, however, the court denied his request for an injunction to stop work on the land where the National Cathedral was going to be built.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; The government has given the National Cathedral Secretariat permission to use GH25 million as extra seed money for the building of the National Cathedral. In a letter to the Controller and Accountant\u2019s General, signed by the Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, the money was told to be given to Ribade Limited as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1108744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4078,8458,13077,225,290,1093,2027],"class_list":["post-1108742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-building","tag-cathedral","tag-gh25","tag-govt","tag-million","tag-national","tag-start"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}