{"id":10540,"date":"2023-03-03T21:24:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=10540"},"modified":"2023-03-03T21:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T21:28:58","slug":"speakers-grants-private-motion-to-probes-national-cathedral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expressnewsghana.com\/?p=10540","title":{"rendered":"Speaker\u2019s\u00a0 grants Private Motion to \u00a0probes National Cathedral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Speaker of Parliament has admitted a private members\u2019 motion from the Minority caucus to allow the setting up of a committee to probe the National Cathedral and all related matters.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Committee will also make appropriate recommendations for consideration of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The National Cathedral project has been engulfed in several controversies and has also faced stiff opposition with a section of the public being of the view that the project is not relevant considering Ghana\u2019s economic woes<\/p>\n<p>It has engaged the services of an audit firm, Deloitte for the audit work to begin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Board is already in discussions to engage Deloitte, which accepted to be the auditors when the National Cathedral was registered, to commence the normal statutory audit\u201d, the Board through its Chairman, Apostle Prof. Opoku Onyinah said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Rev. Kusi Boateng has also been fingered by Okudzeto Ablakwa for having multiple identities and receiving some 2.6 million cedis for no work done.<\/p>\n<p>Two members of the Board of Trustees \u2013 Founder and Leader of Action Chapel International, Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams and Rev. 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