The National Mosque and the alleged participation of the former government in its construction have frequently been highlighted in the middle of the dispute that has plagued the construction of the National Cathedral.
Sammy Gyamfi, the communications officer for the opposition National Democratic Congress, is the most recent to bring up the facility in Kanda in a Cathedral conversation. Gyamfi believes that former president John Dramani Mahama enabled Turkish government financing to help create the facility.
Sammy Gyamfi made comments on a political talk programme on Peace FM on June 27, 2022, criticising President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for the issues that have plagued the project and asserting that the administration should have allowed Christians to employ the same Muslim fundraising model.
"There are a lot of problems with this specific Cathedral since President Akufo-Addo customised it from the beginning.
It's not as though churches and Christians banded together to build the National Mosque in the same way that our Muslim brothers did a while back, requesting assistance from the government in the form of some sort of facilitation.
So, according to him, "President Mahama's first journey after taking office was to Turkey to negotiate that funding from the Turkish government to build that mosque."
According to reports, a non-governmental organisation rather than the Turkish government provided funding for the National Mosque's construction.
The claim that the NGO erected the structure without any assistance from the state has also been rejected as incorrect, along with the claim that the government was involved only through facilitation.
COMOG contests the same claim.
When Dr. Opoku-Mensah of the National Cathedral of Ghana made comments on GBC's Talking Point show to the effect that government had a facilitative role in the construction of the National Mosque, the Coalition of Muslim Organizations, Ghana (COMOG) disputed a similar assertion made by him.
Following a denial of the charges by COMOG in a statement on Monday, June 13, 2022, Dr. Opoku-Mensah apologised and withdraw the remarks.
"What I was told would happen, which was 'facilitation' but not'state resources,' didn't materialise. I regret using the term "state facilitation" and retract it.