Outrageous! National Cathedral Staff Pocket GHS29,838 As December 2024 Salaries: Ablakwa

by Wisdom K.E Hammond · January 4, 2025

Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of parliament for North Tongue and Chairman of the newly constituted Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) has dislcosed that National Cathedral Staff Pocketed between GHS20,721.00 and GHS29,838.00 As December 2024 Salaries.

In a recent revelation that has sparked outrage among Ghanaians, intercepted payment records show that staff of the National Cathedral Secretariat received hefty salaries between GHS20,721.00 and GHS29,838.00 each for December, despite the cathedral project being declared illegal. This development, highlighted by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, underscores the ongoing financial strain placed on taxpayers due to a project mired in controversy and legal battles.

Ablakwa expressed deep concern over the continuation of these payments by the Akufo-Addo administration, particularly after a report by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) recommended the prosecution of officials involved in the unlawful cathedral enterprise. Despite the President’s silence on the US$58 million cathedral project during his State of the Nation Address, the reality of unaccounted funds and questionable priorities has left a bitter taste among citizens.

However, with the recent electoral defeat of the NPP, Ablakwa reassures Ghanaians that the days of such financial mismanagement are numbered, as January 2025 marks the cessation of salary payments to the cathedral staff and the impending dissolution of the project’s remnants. This marks a pivotal moment in ensuring accountability and fiscal responsibility in Ghana’s governance.

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Even as President Akufo-Addo was loudly silent on his scandalous US$58million cathedral pit during yesterday’s State of the Nation Address — a legacy project he once described as his priority of priorities, it is most insulting to suffering Ghanaian taxpayers, and the height of insensitivity for his government to continue paying staff of the National Cathedral Secretariat.

Intercepted payment records confirm that only 4 days ago, staff of the notoriously wasteful National Cathedral Secretariat were paid between GHS20,721.00 and GHS29,838.00 each as their December salary (see evidence attached).

Shockingly, these fat salaries continue to be paid by the outgoing intransigent Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration despite a November CHRAJ report declaring the cathedral project illegal and recommending the prosecution of officials associated with that unlawful enterprise.

President Akufo-Addo is obviously too embarrassed to report to the nation on his US$58million National Cathedral fiasco but he should have been more embarrassed superintending over reckless salary payments which constitute an unconscionable and unmitigated financial loss to the state after 33 months since the world’s most expensive pit was abandoned.

Thanks to the wise decision of Ghanaians to hand out a humiliating defeat to the NPP in the December elections, this cruel dissipation of our taxes is over!

There shall be no January 2025 salary payment for the National Cathedral Secretariat, and it can safely be predicted that all those illegal tax-guzzling cathedral structures would be dissolved in a few days.

The day of reckoning is finally here.

God bless the Ghanaian people.

For God and Country.

Ghana First.