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Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a former Deputy Minister for Communication in the erstwhile Mahama administration has alleged that the government owes the contractor who is building the National Cathedral a whopping $52 million for digging just a “useless hole”.
Speaking to Oheneba Boamah Bennie on the Gumbe Show on TV XYZ, the NDC Parliamentary candidate for Abura-Asebu-Kwamankese constituency described the construction of the National Cathedral by the Akufo-Addo government as the most useless venture in Ghana’s history.
Kwakye Ofosu alleged that “apart from the $58 million spent on the useless project, the government has to look for $52 million of state funds to pay the contractor working on the project just for digging a hole on the site.”
“Just the hole that has been created and not the main project,” he stated. “So if the contractor who has already issued a certificate for the work done decides to sue the government in court, he has to be paid.”
He said the government could not pay caterers to feed basic school pupils across the country but saw it prudent to “waste” funds on the building of a cathedral whose impact would not be felt by the citizens.
“I have said that I will never support the construction of the National Cathedral. I don’t know how you would want to describe me; You can call me a devil for saying that,” Kwakye Ofosu told Oheneba Boamah Bennie, host of the Gumbe Show on TV XYZ.
“There is no need to support this project. As we live in this country, is our priority a cathedral?” he quizzed.
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