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General News on Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Source: Starrfmonline.com
2018-12-26
Nicholas Duncan-Williams
An archbishop, Nicholas Duncan-Williams, a member of the board of directors who will be in charge of the cathedral once completed, said that criticisms of the project would soon be taken into account.
Many Ghanaians have expressed opposition to the construction of the cathedral, for which the government provides seed money.
The unions, in order to dissuade the government from continuing the planned construction of the cathedral, asked President Akufo-Addo to set aside this plan, otherwise we would invite all Ghanaians to join us in campaigning vehemently. against this misplaced priority and to protect the national portfolio ". . "
A recent study revealed that 64.31% of respondents were strongly opposed to the construction of the cathedral, regardless of their demographic situation, which apparently departs from the President's badertion that a Christian majority in the country was a good sign for this idea.
The poll conducted by iPoll Ghana also revealed that the opposition was strongest among the young and the most educated, suggesting a broader demographic shift in the way religion is perceived and lived.
But in an interview after officially inviting the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye, to a fundraising event for the construction of the cathedral, the preacher, who is the archbishop president and the overseer General of Action Chapel International Ministry , said the board of directors would soon react to criticism and controversy around the project.
"As members of the board, we listen, we evaluate, we examine and we tackle the problems that arise. So, it 's not like we do not know it. We listen and we tackle a lot of problems, "he said.
"We intend to engage the media to clarify a lot of unanswered questions and to answer some speculation," he added.
"We have to make sense of some of the speculation going on," he said.
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