{"id":1130760,"date":"2022-06-22T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/there-was-hardship-in-ghana-when-rawlings-built-the-national-theatre-so-allow-akufo-addo-to-build-the-cathedral-ruthy-fires-critics\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T11:44:22","slug":"there-was-hardship-in-ghana-when-rawlings-built-the-national-theatre-so-allow-akufo-addo-to-build-the-cathedral-ruthy-fires-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/22\/there-was-hardship-in-ghana-when-rawlings-built-the-national-theatre-so-allow-akufo-addo-to-build-the-cathedral-ruthy-fires-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018There was hardship in Ghana when Rawlings built the National Theatre so allow Akufo Addo to build the Cathedral\u2019 \u2013 Ruthy fires critics"},"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<h2><strong>President Akufo <\/strong><strong>Addo has said despite the criticisms hurled at his government for purposing to build a National Cathedral, he will still go ahead and make sure the edifice is built to the glory of God.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Through Christ who strengthens us, the National Cathedral will be built to the glory and honour of God. Amen!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams said he could not understand why Christians were the ones vociferously fighting against President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s plan to build the cathedral.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, peeps in Ghana\u2019s showbiz industry have all added their voices to the national cathedral buzz, especially Blakk Rasta and Lydia Forson who believe the project should be halted in immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>However, it seems few people have started to think critically giving out logical reasons why the cathedral should be seen as a priority.<\/p>\n<p>Ruthy, a highly opinionated showbiz critic, has stated categorically that even at the time the late Rawlings built the National Theater, the was serious hardship in Ghana, however, it didn\u2019t stop Rawlings from doing the needful.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Consequently, there exists hardship in Ghana, but that alone should not stop Akufo Addo from doing the needful looking at the enormous benefits the Cathedra will bring upon completion.<\/p>\n<p>As a reminder, Ghana\u2019s president Akufo Addo on Tuesday, 6 March 2018 unveiled the design and architecture for the National Cathedral at a brief ceremony at the Accra International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p>It would house impressive chapels and baptistery, a 5,000-capacity auditorium, grand central hall, music school, choir rehearsal and multi-purpose spaces, an art gallery, and a shop.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><noscript><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"l2G5RisfI2w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Allow Akufo Addo to build the Cathedral \u2013 Ruthy fires critics\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l2G5RisfI2w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/noscript><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/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; President Akufo Addo has said despite the criticisms hurled at his government for purposing to build a National Cathedral, he will still go ahead and make sure the edifice is built to the glory of God. \u201c\u2026Through Christ who strengthens us, the National Cathedral will be built to the glory and honour of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1130762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[543,544,2581,1664,8458,1737,1768,85,6577,1093,1674,8848,17557],"class_list":["post-1130760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-addo","tag-akufo","tag-build","tag-built","tag-cathedral","tag-critics","tag-fires","tag-ghana","tag-hardship","tag-national","tag-rawlings","tag-ruthy","tag-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130760","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=1130760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}