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Executive Director of the Center for Democratic Development, Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh<\/p>\n
The Executive Director of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) has added his voice to calls for government to suspend the construction of the controversial National Cathedral project.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh says the current economic crisis does not make time for vanity projects such as the Cathedral.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Expressing his disappointment with the project, Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh said the project was not a sensible one.<\/p>\n
Contributing to a roundtable discussion organised by the Citizen\u2019s Coalition on Thursday, December 15, he opined that it is not too late to suspend the project.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to him, the site can be used for important projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is not the time for vanity projects but we have preserved a vanity project in the form of the cathedral, I was expecting that this being a crisis period we will reflect on that decision and say even if this is sensible to do at all and I do not think so, that it will not be the appropriate period or we will change the idea to something else, there is a lot that we can still do with that site which can make sense,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor H. Kwasi Prempeh added that the government missed the opportunity to restructure its priorities with the 2023 budget.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He said some irrelevant expenditures could have been done away with but did not.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you are in crisis, you can do exceptional things. I don\u2019t see anything in the budget to suggest that this is a crisis and that this is being done as an emergency measure,\u201d Professor Prempeh said.<\/p>\n
He said the government\u2019s focus in the 2023 budget was only to get the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to grant its loan request.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cSo generally it is a missed opportunity in terms of seeing this as a crisis moment and seeing it as a moment to reset the button, I think we have not quite done that.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIt looks to me that it is purely an emergency thing targeted at the IMF to approve a loan as opposed to something that is going deep into the structure and our governance.\u201d<\/p>\n
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