In their attempt to mock the government for its failure to complete the National Cathedral project, some members of the Minority symbolically commissioned the non-existent edifice on Wednesday, March 06, 2024, a date the government intended to commission the building if it had been completed.
The former Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, during the mid-year budget review in Parliament in 2021, noted that the National Cathedral was going to be commissioned on March 06, 2024.
But as at the date, the project on which GHC339 million has been expensed, had not gone beyond the foundation stage making it earn the accolade as the most expensive hole in the world.
The Minority MPs led by North Tongu lawmaker, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, were impeded by the security personnel at the construction site when they attempted entrance to deliver their statement.
A consensus was finally arrived at between the MPs and the security for the latter to use the entrance of the site to conduct their press conference to express their displeasure with the government’s failure to complete the project despite the amount wasted on it.
The symbolic act of commissioning the uncompleted National Cathedral underscored their critique of what they perceived as shortcomings in the government’s handling of the project.
“When the Act of Parliament had to grind on him [Ofori-Atta], he had to come and beg. Your instructions are that we should not enter, we will not enter, we will stand at the entrance,” the MP for Ningo Prampram, Samuel Nartey George, said.
They then cut a sod to commission the Cathedral on behalf of the President.
“We commission this expensive hole, on behalf of Dr Bawumia, President Akufo-Addo and Ken Ofori-Atta.”
