Private Legal Practitioner and a staunch member of the National Democratic Congress, Lawyer Edudzi Tamakloe, believes payments made to Sir David Adjaye on the architectural design of the national cathedral sounds fishy.
He accuses government of making these payments to Sir David Adjaye without proper recourse to the law.
But government believes it has not erred in not detailing the GH¢32 million to Sir David Adjaye and Associates for consultancy on the National Cathedral in the budget.
A Deputy Minister for finance, Hon John Kumah told the media last week that government had given enough clarity on state funding of the cathedral.
“Even though it may not be captured as a budget item because it is not under any specific MDA, it can form part of government expenditure as long as we have captured in the budget that we were going to provide seed funding,” he explained.
But speaking on Okay Fm's Ade Akye Abia programme, the legal practitioner, who is an aide to the former president John Dramani Mahama, said he could not fathom why payments have been made to the architectural designer though works on the cathedral have not been completed.
Lawyer Godwin Edudzie Tamakloe appeared a bit worried about the sole sourcing tender process through which Mr. David Ajaye was awarded the said contract.
". . . .in a letter circulating in the media space and signed by the chief of staff, I notice that the Public Procurement Authority was instructed to allow a sole sourcing contract be granted to Sir David Adjaye which clearly was in sharp contradiction of procurement laws in this country.
"Where did we go wrong as country that we will have to break our own laws to satisfy our family and friends?" he quizzed.
He added that building of a cathedral for him isn't a bad idea but government can appeal to Ghanaians to donate at least 100 ghana cedis to the building of the cathedral.
"But the funny thing Christians are not even willing to donate to building of the cathedral which will serve as a more diligent purpose for them than any other religious group in the country".
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I now understand why this guy don't win cases.
The money your sister Sedinam Tamakloe stole from MASLOC and now hiding in the USA under the pretext of medical ground can build the cathedral. You have been trying hard for the NDC to come to power so that her case is throw away.
Edudzi Tamakloe YOU ARE SUCH ***barred word*** LIKE THAT DID YOU REALLY WENT TO SCHOOL IN A ***barred word*** MAY BE, SIR ADJEYE IS A WORLD CLASS ARCHITECT NOT LIKE YOU PIAPIA LAWYER AND HAVE BUILDINGS DESIGNED BY HIM GLOBALLY. IN A SCHEME OF THINGS GHANA IS A SMALL COUNTRY AND NOT HIS CUP OF TEA NDC ARE BUNCH OF JOKERS. COME TO WASHINGTON DC AND TAKE A LOOK AT THE AFRICAN AMERICA MESUME DESIGNED BY HIM AND WAS BUILD DURING PRESIDENT OBAMA'S TIME, SO WHO THE HELL ARE YOU SIR ADJEYE HAS OFFICES AROUND THE WORLD INCLUDING BRITAIN AND GHANA THAT HAS GHANAIAN EMPLOYEES. SO WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT ARE YOU FOR REAL. NDC ARE JOKERS PARTY IN THE WORLD.IN TODAYS WORLD GHANAIANS DON'T WANT JOKERS PARTY LIKE YOU AND YOUR COHERTS TO COME INTO THE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT ANY LONGER. TRUST ME BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE JOKERS INCLUDING OKUDZATO ALAKWA CHIEF OF DOUBLE SALARY.
These are guys who behave like they have not been to school. What is he saying about Mahama's purchase of planes and bauxite contracts given to his own brother? Edudzi saw nothing wrong with those contracts but for his stomach, he sees more things now.
This guy is a lawyer. How can he make a loose statement like that? Does he know the type of contract the government has with the architect, Sir Adjaye? I believe, even as a layman, it is in the interest of the star architect to provide specialized site supervision with a team of site engineers and architects to see to it that the concept of the design is technically realized on site. The Adjaye team will do site supervision from the beginning of the project to the end, and they will draw monthly salaries either directly from the government or from Adjaye, depending on the nature of the contract. The prominent lawyer, Mr. Tamakloe of the NDC, is commenting so loosely on a very important national issue as to say, just discredit the NPP, the ruling party on the issue, and the good people will vote us into power instead. This kind of disposition of the NDC sets out that the good people of Ghana are intellectually weak. Inherently, I'm strongly inclined to believe that the NDC rather lacks intellect and desperately believes that the Ghanaians will buy into their incompetent comments. For how long is the NDC going to continue this kind of politics of deceit?
Edudzi Tamakloe you and your NDC are nation wreckers. You are lying through your teeth. Go to the source, use the right to information bill to find the needed information and you will be informed. Any way your propaganda won't wash