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Flag bearer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama asserts that God will be displeased if his administration pushes through with building the National Cathedral without providing textbooks for elementary students.
Speaking to the religious community during his building Ghana tour, the former president characterized the National Cathedral’s construction as a highly contentious idea.
“The President said that he made a pledge to God that if he won the election, he would build a Cathedral for Him. So it is a personal pledge and if he wants to build it he must gather people who support that conviction to build it.
“We were told that public funds were not going to be used for the Cathedral but eventually we found that the Ministry of Finance was releasing taxes. Our taxes are paid not only by Christians, they are paid by Muslims. So we can’t use public funds including the funds of other denominations to build the Cathedral for Christians alone,” the former President stated.
According to him, the government has already spent fifty-eight million dollars on the excavation of a large pit for the National Cathedral.
He claims that the enormous sum might be utilized to address the urgent demands of schoolchildren, including providing desks, among other things.
“You have to ask yourself when in this day and age where children do not have desks in schools. When children do not have textbooks. For five years you have not provided our basic school children with textbooks even though we have come out with a new curriculum.
“Because we say we do not have money, and yet you say we should use 450 million dollars to build a Cathedral even God will be angry with us,” he stated.
The NDC presidential candidate declared that his administration will talk about the intended use of the space with the religious authorities.
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