James Kwabena Bomfeh, a member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has filed a writ at the Supreme Court challenging government’s decision to build a national cathedral.
In the writ, dated March 10, Mr Bomfeh, also known as Kabila, indicated he was seeking “a declaration that the decision of the Government of Ghana to purposely endorse, assist, aid, partly sponsor, and/or support the construction of a National Cathedral near the State House of Ghana, for Christian interdenominational church services amounts to an excessive entanglement of the Republic of Ghana and religion and therefore unconstitutional”.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo cut the sod for the construction of the chapel to mark the 60th Anniversary of the country.
The President cut the sod on the morning of the 60th Independence Day at the National Scholarship Secretariat in Accra but Mr Bomfeh does not believe it is the place of government to undertake such projects.
For him, government has no business to meddle in religious affairs in such manner and also wants the Hajj Board, constituted by government, to be declared illegal.
He has, therefore, sought “a declaration that the setting up of a Hajj Board by the Government of the Republic of Ghana for the purpose of coordinating, supporting and/or aiding Ghanaian Muslims to embark on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca…” is unconstitutional.
Source: classfmonline.com
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I agree with kabila, the hajj board and this cathederal are illegal. what if the fetish priets also demand national shrine. our politics in ghana is non.sense and cheap.
Show me other African presidents who built cathedrals. Mobutu Seseseko, Offei Buanyee, and now Nana Addo. What is the legacy of Mobutu, what is the legacy of Buaynee. what is going to be the legacy of Nana Addo. The morning shows the day. Tell Ursulla Owusu that there is nothing more visionless and clueless than the cathedral idea. Npp four agyimifour- Kennedy Agyapong
the government needs to prioritise and focus. we cannot do everything at once. we need free SHS, we need education infrastructure when school buildings are collapsing on children, we need chps compounds, clinics, hospitails as to prote maternal and child health. As for cathedrals, i do not think it deserves the tax payers money. npp can take it up as a thank you to the bishops who campaigned for them to come to power not the statte' funds. npp should give us the district factories, the village dams, and and the numerous promises and stop this cathedral idea. npp fuor, gyimih, gyimih, I do not know why I belong to that party (vide Kennedy Agyapong). When Mahama is sacrificing part of his salary to provide more chps compounds kabila and co were all over the media insulting him and throwing their weight behind Nana Addo. You see your smoothness level, now you are going to court for what is obviously not in the interest of national development.
Moslims pay tax and so do Christians, the money must be used to benefit tax payers. When they use tax payers money to fly people to watch football, that is fine and no one speaks, but to build a church, ediots are shouting. Even China that the world thinks in anti-God builds churches, pays pastors and utility bills for christians. God bless our homeland Ghana!
WE DONT NEED MANIPULATION OF CHURCHES. AFRICA IS TIRED WITH DIVIDED AND RULE POLICIES. NATIONAL CATHEDRAL WILL INCREASE THE HYPOCRISY OF THE CHURCHES AS SOME WOULD LIKE TO KOWTOW TO GOVERNMENT TO EXERCISE CONTROL OF THAT BUILDING. GHANA HAS LIVED FOR 60 YEARS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR ANYTHING LIKE NATIONAL CATHEDRAL. WHY DO WE MAKE A NEED OUT OF NO NEED. I AM VERY SURPRISED THAT LEADERS OF CHURCHES LIKE CATHOLIC, METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, THE ORTHODOX CHURCHES, WHO ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR PRAGMATISM AND OPEN MINDEDNESS ARE SILENT OVER THE MATTER. ANY RIGHT THINKING PERSON KNOWS THAT THE MOVE TO BUILD A NATIONAL CATHEDRAL IS NOT RIGHT. IT WILL CAUSE MORE HARM THAN GOOD FOR THE NATION. IT IS NOT A PRIORITY OF GOD FOR GHANA BECAUSE GOD IS NOT PLEASED WITH MERE SACRIFICE BUT OBEDIENCE TO HIS WAYS. WE NEED TO ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF CHRISTIANITY IN GHANA. THERE ARE SO MANY FAKE RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND PRACTICES WHICH ARE NOT HELPFUL TO OUR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND OUR NATIONAL GROWTH. THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD NOT DO ANYTHING THAT WOULD DO MORE HARM TO THE ALREADY WOUNDED CHRISTIAN PRACTICES IN GHANA.
Anyone who would stand in nana's way will surely die..its a catheral for the nation he intend to build.what is kabila's problem.God is watching...
'For lack of knowledge.......' Nana, you said you will do 'FREE SHS, and did your detractors not say. 'One Village ,One Dam'. Again, they were there' , jabbing you. In fact,they said you were 'incapable of becoming a president. Have you forgotten ? We havent. Their 'agenda' is 'tall': to see you fail. IGNORE THEM. The 'Pratts' and the 'Kabilas' did not vote for and they shall never vote for you. But the over 50% who voted for you are behind you. Go ahead. Till THE CONSTITION IS CHANGED, YOU NANA ADDO IS OUR EXECUTIVE PRESIDENT. You saD THE BATTLE IS THE LORD's. SO enthrone the LORD in our midst to go ahead and fight ALL our 'battles' for us. GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS YOU. Like DAVID,may the LORD look unto you with favour and establish your throne indeed. One caution however, DO NOT LOOK TO THE LEFT NOR TO THE RIGHT, TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART ,AND HE, JEHOVAH SHALL GRANT YOU THE DESIRES OF YOUR HEART. As for the 'Sauls',the 'Pharaohs',and their cohorts,the LORD,to whom the battle belongs,knows how to deal with them. SHALOM ALEIKHUIM.
KWABENA DUMFEH IS RIGHT. AKUFFO ADDO GOVERNMENT MUST BE REALISTIC AND SHOULD NOT RESORT TO EMOTIONS AND FANATICISM. WE HAVE DIFFERENT CHRISTIAN DENOMINATIONS IN GHANA. EACH OF THEM MANAGE TO DO WELL AND BUILD THEIR OWN CHURCHES. GHANA HAS SO MANY MAGNIFICENT CATHEDRALS FOR DIFFERENT CHURCHES THAT WE DONT NEE ANY NATION CATHEDRAL FOR A NAMELESS CHURCH. IT WILL BE A WASTE OF RESOURCES AND MISPLACE OF PRIORITY FOR AKUFFO ADDO GOVERNMENT TO EMBARK ON SUCH A PROJECT. I WILL BEGIN TO THINK THAT AKKUFFO ADDO WOULD LIKE TO RELY ON THE EMOTIONS AND FANATICISM RATHER THAN TO BECOME PRAGMATIC. THIS WOULD BE DANGEROUS AND UNHEALTHY FOR THE NATION. WE ELECTED HIM AND NPP TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT IN GHANA THAT WOULD INSPIRE AND PROMOTE FREEDOM OF WORSHIP AND NOT TO INTERFERE WITH RELIGION OR TAKEN OVER RELIGION. THERE ARE FAR TOO MANY CHURCHES IN GHANA THAT WE DONT NEED TO START A NATIONAL CHURCH OF GHANA. AKUFFO ADDO SHOULD KNOW AND UNDERSTAND THAT WE VOTED FOR HIM NOT BECAUSE OF FALSE PROPHESIES OF OWUSU BEMPAH. ADARKWAH YIADON, OBINIM, THAT ISLAMIC CLERGY AND THE OTHERS. GHANAIANS WERE TIRED OF MAHAMA CORRUPTION AND WE WANTED SANITY IN OUR POLITICS FOR WELL BEING OF ALL. GOD WILL BE PLEASED WITH HIM TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND ENSURE TRANSPARENCY IN GOVERNANCE THAN TO YIELD TO DICTATIONS OF THOSE FALSE PROPHETS.
KING JAMES USED STATE FUNDS FOR TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE FROM HEBREW TO ENGLISH AND NO CURRENCY CAN MATCH-UP WITH POUNDS. KABILA , BETOLD THAT SOLOMON BUILT A TEMPLE FOR GOD AND HE WAS BLESSED WITH WISDOM. KABILA DO YOU BELIEVE IN WORDS OF OUR NATIONAL ANTHERM, '' god bless our homeland ghana'' HOW WOULD GOD ALMIGHTY BLESS US IF WE DON'T A PLACE FOR HIM IN OUR NATIONAL AFFAIRS, MY DEAR WITHDRAW YOUR SUIT AND GOD WILL BLESS. DON'T BE TOO-KNOWN AND NEVER ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE USED, ALWAYS SEEK GOD'S DIRECTION BEFORE DOING ANYTHING. POLITICS IS OVER WE ARE NOW BUILDING MOTHER GHANA, COME WITH CLEAR HEART AND MIND.
It is a shame a lawyer would say this. Even those of us who did not read law to the higher level can see the weakness in this case. The question is 'WHAT DOES THE LAW SAY?'. The Constitution of Ghana permits freedom of religion. Therefore stopping the building of cathedral is in itself UNCONSTITUTIONAL.