{"id":1253700,"date":"2022-11-18T19:07:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/national-cathedral-is-100-owned-by-ghana-not-akufo-addo-ken-ofori-atta\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T19:07:04","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T19:07:04","slug":"national-cathedral-is-100-owned-by-ghana-not-akufo-addo-ken-ofori-atta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/national-cathedral-is-100-owned-by-ghana-not-akufo-addo-ken-ofori-atta\/","title":{"rendered":"National Cathedral is 100% owned by Ghana, not Akufo-Addo &#8211; Ken Ofori-Atta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/National-Cathedral.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The embattled Finance Minister says the controversial National Cathedral project belongs to Ghana fully.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ken Ofori-Atta said the project does not belong to President Akufo-Addo as asserted in some circles.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ghanaians will enjoy the full benefits of the project and not the President.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZeC-B0bGMf8\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"National Cathedral 100% owned by State, not Akufo-Addo \u2013 Finance Minister\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZeC-B0bGMf8?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNational Cathedral is 100 per cent owned by the state and is not the President\u2019s cathedral as described by the proponents,\u201d he said when he appeared before the Ad hoc Committee hearing the censure motion against him on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Touching on the expenditure for the controversial project, he said he has not breached any laws in that regard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that the monies that have been disbursed for use for the project were from the contingency vault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this practice is not new as was done by the previous Mahama-led administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta said he has in his possession several pieces of evidence to prove his claim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpenditures in respect of the National Cathedral were made from the contingency vault under the other government obligations vault as has been the practice before my tenure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have several copies of payments from the contingency vault dating back to 2015 to share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonourable co-chairs as Finance Minister I am fully aware of the approval procedures for use of the contingency funds and I have not breached its requirements,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embattled Finance Minister says the controversial National Cathedral project belongs to Ghana fully.\u00a0 Ken Ofori-Atta said the project does not belong to President Akufo-Addo as asserted in some circles. According to him, Ghanaians will enjoy the full benefits of the project and not the President.\u00a0 \u201cNational Cathedral is 100 per cent owned by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1195859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253700","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=1253700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}