A member of the National Cathedral Board of Trustees, Rev. Joyce Aryee, says the trustees are not privy to the total seed money government is committing to the project.
“I’m still looking for it, I think that’s the question we need to go and ask–Since the state said it will give us seed money, what percentage is it giving? …No, we were not told, we were just told seed money, and we have relied on the seed money the government will find from time to time. We have not been told the exact amount the seed money is,” she told Umaru Sanda Amadu in an interview on Eyewitness News on Thursday.
When asked how the board of trustees was operating without the knowledge of government’s commitment, she noted that in such instances, they assume that they are supposed to raise the total budget and consider “the other one [government’s seed money] as a gift. It will be wonderful when the other person [government] brings his gift, otherwise, I’m building [the project without it]”.
She stated that the Articles of Incorporation make the board of trustees the project owners.
“Actually the Articles of Incorporation make us the project owners [board of trustees]. It will be a national monument,” she stressed.
The member of the National Cathedral Board of Trustees stated that they were assigned to raise funds while the government will also support them with other stuff.
“The project was never meant to be fully financed by the state and when we were called, that is what we were told. The state will do certain things and we the members of the board were to make sure that we raise the money to build the Cathedral. It was never meant to be fully financed by the state,” Rev. Joyce Aryee clarified.
She stated that the board members were not building blindly because the seed money is not the whole money for the construction of the National Cathedral.
“We are not building blindly because the seed money is not the entire money for the project,” She underscored.
The National Cathedral has always been in the news for the wrong reasons with the recent one being a GH¢2.6 million scandalcurrently being probed by the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ).
SOURCE TheGhanaianVoice
