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IS IT A LOT TO INVOLVE CITIZENS' CASH FOR PUBLIC HOUSE OF PRAYER? - OFORI-ATTA ASKS PUNDITS

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2 years ago



Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has contemplated whether utilizing state assets to construct the public church building that President Nana Akufo-Addo vowed to set up for God assuming he won the administration, was excessively.

 

"Anytime when these structures were implicit Europe, was it ever the ideal opportunity? How would we reserve it will end up being the inquiry", he asked in a meeting on state-claimed GTV on Sunday, 12 June 2022.

 

"Is the leader aware of the ongoing circumstance? We shouldn't snuff out our legalism or otherworldliness since we are poor", he noted.

 

"The Lord will comprehend on the off chance that we put our widow's vermin in there", Mr. Ofori-Atta noted.

 

"That inquiry being posed is that: Are we burning through cash from state money vaults? Is that a lot to do on the grounds that we are politicizing it? Do we truly need to stop it? That will be my inquiry."

 

He said: "As a priest of money, we are taking a gander at assets and the amount we put in there at each moment that is reasonable and, thus, right now, we have spent short of what one-thousandth of our consumption on that."

 

"I'm extremely sure of raising income to have the option to finance this and afterward, more critically, to investigate its financial aspects, I genuinely see a mind-boggling limit that this will pay off.

 

"Regularly, I am taking a gander at an inward pace of return, thus, we ought to place this at the top of the priority list", the president's cousin noted.

 

A couple of days prior, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Mr. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, claimed that on the 29th of October 2020, half a month prior to the public races, Mr. Ofori-Atta, following up on a solicitation by President Akufo-Addo's Chief of Staff, approved the arrival of GHS142,762,500.00 for public church arranged exercises.

 

As per Mr. Ablakwa, as opposed to lawful necessities, the public authority hid "this ginormous GHS142.7 million from Parliament as they purposely neglected to reveal this thing as a feature of their consumption returns of 2020 during the 2021 financial plan thought in Parliament."

 

This 2020 basilica use, the resistance MP noted, was likewise avoided the Auditor-General in his 2020 review.

 

In a Facebook post, the legislator expressed up until this point, adding this most recent confession to his past releases, the Akufo-Addo government has burned through GHS199,832,603.00 of citizen finances on a church building which was initially introduced to Ghanaians as an individual promise to God that won't be executed with citizen reserves.

 

Diving into the lots of archives, Mr. Ablakwa expressed that a lot more millions have been paid wrongfully which "we will keep on putting out to the brilliance of God and in the general public interest. On a further more startling note, the figures we are as of now evaluating don't seem as though anything close to a seed capital."

 

He said this GHS200 million church building door has ended up being the greatest official outrage in Ghana's whole history.

 

He depicted as appallingly surprising, how President Akufo-Addo and his men could participate in "such corrupt, unlawful and unfeeling behavior."

 

For the sake of a house of God project, Mr. Ablakwa again claimed that a bad slush reserve has been made to siphon citizen assets from the enduring masses on the blindside of Parliament, the Auditor-General, CSOs, and other responsibility frameworks.

 

"Enlighteningly, these unlawful redirections occurred when the public authority was participated in gigantic vote-purchasing to win the 2020 decisions; it was likewise the period COVID-19 had crested and put huge tension on our wellbeing conveyance as numerous Ghanaians kicked the bucket, but President Akufo-Addo guaranteed he was unable to track down the assets to satisfy his Agenda 111 promise of building new medical clinics," he expressed.

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