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Mahama worked with award for working of National Mosque - Sammy Gyamfi claims
Amidst the discussion that has hounded the structure of the National Cathedral, the National Mosque and the implied job of the then government in building it has frequently been refered to.
The most recent to make reference to the office situated at Kanda in a Cathedral conversation is Communications Officer of the resistance National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi, who claims previous President John Dramani Mahama worked with Turkish government backing to assist with building the office.
Making entries on a political television show on Peace FM, June 27, 2022; Sammy Gyamfi hammered President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the debates that have beset the venture and guaranteed that administration ought to have permitted the Christian devoted to take on the financing model Muslims evidently utilized.
"This specific Cathedral, there are a ton of issues with it due to how President Akufo-Addo customized it all along.
"It isn't as though the chapels and Christians came up to assemble endeavors similarly as our Muslim siblings at some point back met up to fabricate the National Mosque, so (that) the public authority ought to help by playing a certain working with job.
"In this way, when President Mahama came into office, his most memorable outing was to Turkey to work with that award from the Turkish government to construct that mosque," he asserted.
Reports have expressed that the National Mosque was not worked by a Turkish government award however by a Non-Governmental Organization.
The issue of government contribution via help has likewise been excused as false, that the NGO constructed the design with next to no state inclusion.
Recently, the Coalition of Muslim Organizations, Ghana (COMOG) tested a comparative case by Dr. Opoku-Mensah of the National Cathedral of Ghana when he offered expressions on GBC's Talking Point program such that administration played a working with job in development of the National Mosque.
After a Monday, June 13, 2022 proclamation by COMOG questioning the cases, Dr. Opoku-Mensah released a statement of regret and withdrawn the said remarks.
"What I had been educated was 'assistance' - yet not 'express assets' - didn't really occur. I withdraw, and apologize, for the utilization of 'state assistance' in my reaction, and profoundly lament the aggravation it could have caused the COMOG and the Muslim Umma in Ghana," the CEO argued.
While Dr Opoku-Mensah's case was in defense of the public authority's choice to propel state cash on the side of the development of the National Cathedral, the President of COMOG, Hajj Abdel-Manan Abdel Rahman in an explanation called his cases a conscious misrepresentation.
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