The National Cathedral Secretariat has confirmed that the project has stalled since early this month citing a lack of funds.
North Tongu MP, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, who had been at the heart of calls for financial and corporate scrutiny of the project mentioned months back that work had stalled.
His view was corroborated by media outfits that visited the site at the time and found that no work was ongoing.
The Executive Director of the project, Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah on Tuesday, August 30, confirmed the suspension of work despite the continued presence of contractors and their staff on site.
“We have the contractors and their staff on site, but the work has been suspended. We are hoping that within the next couple of weeks, as part of our fundraising and other initiatives we can begin work again,” he told a delegation that had come to donate towards the project.
He added thus: “our ability to complete this work keenly depends on Ghanaians supporting it.”
He rallied the Christian faithful to ramp up their support for the project, stressing that it was the surest way to raise needed funds to complete the project.
“The money might be big in terms of volume but if indeed we have 21 million Christians and a million can give us GH₵100 a month for a year, we can easily complete this in time.
“I refuse to believe that we can’t get a million Ghanaians out of the 21 million Christians to support this. I still have faith in the Ghanaian and I am confident that we will do this,” he added.
In the last few months, Ablakwa has revealed documents proving that the government authorized payments of GHC25 million (May 2022) and US$25 million (November 2020) as seed money towards the project, amounts he insists did not get required Parliamentary approval.
