{"id":1122542,"date":"2022-06-15T08:06:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/a-national-cathedral-is-not-one-of-the-biggest-problems-in-ghana\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T08:06:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T08:06:39","slug":"a-national-cathedral-is-not-one-of-the-biggest-problems-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/15\/a-national-cathedral-is-not-one-of-the-biggest-problems-in-ghana\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;A National Cathedral Is Not One Of The Biggest Problems In Ghana&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>According to him, there are bigger problems in Ghana than a national cathedral so, in his view, the government should concentrate on these problems before tackling the national cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>He made this known when he spoke in a recent exclusive interview with Multimedia\u2019s Doreen Avio. In his submission, he said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went to buy gas [fuel] today, I live in California and it\u2019s just the same price in Ghana. Why is gas the same price in California as it is in Ghana? It makes no sense.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: \u2018Glad To Know My People Care About My Opinion\u2019 \u2013 Michael Blackson Says After He Made Headlines For Lamenting About The High Cost Of Living In Ghana<\/h4>\n<p>The average income in California is probably $250,000 a year. The average income in Ghana is about $150 a month. We have bigger problems than a cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>How is the Uber driver going to make money if gas prices cost so much?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments come at a time when many Ghanaians have registered their displeasure as the government rolls out plans to build the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Just like Blackson, many Ghanaians feel the government should create jobs instead of building the cathedral.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"4e34797b697e318947f60cbd-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to him, there are bigger problems in Ghana than a national cathedral so, in his view, the government should concentrate on these problems before tackling the national cathedral. He made this known when he spoke in a recent exclusive interview with Multimedia\u2019s Doreen Avio. In his submission, he said; \u201cI went to buy gas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1122548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2229,8458,85,1093,1261],"class_list":["post-1122542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-biggest","tag-cathedral","tag-ghana","tag-national","tag-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122542","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=1122542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1122542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1122542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1122542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1122542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}