News Desk Report
Shareef Suleiman Nimbang, President of the “Young Democrats of Pong-Tamale, YODEP” in the Northern Region of Ghana has stressed that the Board of Trustees for the National Cathedral are more political in the shadow and less religious in reality.
In a statement sent to National Tymes in Accra, the YODEP President, Mr. Suleiman Nimbang alluded that the clergy of this country have submitted to President Akufo-Addo’s machinations to gag free speech.
Mr. Suleiman Nimbang said, “I find it a betrayal of trust and the height of disappointment, the ease with which the clergy have succumbed to the perilous manipulations of an ill-fated president, Nana Akuffo Ado who is fast succeeding at his underhand plans to gag all discerning and dissenting voices, including those of the clergy”.
“….”but who would have thought that, our revered clergymen and women who are being identified as principled personalities, given their statuses and roles in the society, could be this gullible and thoughtless! Thus, allowing themselves to be swayed by the president like a tethered animal”.
According to the statement, how important is the cathedral at the moment in Ghana when things are very difficult and the nation keeps borrowing to pay off existing debts? Is it that we’ve no place where people can congregate to church and worship?, YODEP opined.
The statement quizzed whether Nana Akufo-Addo is forcing for the Cathedral for the mere reason that others have it? Or the board of trustees are just being roped in by the most cunning President in the anals of Ghanaian history to accept and pursue his personal pledge of building a national cathedral, a pledge which conception is obviously not motivated by faith but by the loot that will be dubiously created through it, for his profit.
It was further noted that the religious leaders who ought to have been the mouthpiece of the voiceless, the vulnerable and the less privileged, have gone all out in support of the construction of a Worthless cathedral at the expense of the Ghanaian child who studies with hunger in our public schools because the same government which has prioritized the building of a cathedral is unable to pay off the debts owed caterers of the school feeding programme.
To YODEP, the unemployed youth, most of whom have exited NABCO over half a year now and are back to square one, are finding it extremely difficult to afford a meal a day, given the harsh economic conditions of our dear nation.
A question that begs an answer from the board of trustees is this; are we sure a luxurious cathedral is what the Lord wants? when most of His, “children” in Ghana today, go to bed with an empty stomach, the statement pointed out.
Mr. Suleiman Nimbang suspected source of motivation of some members of the clergy who tried to persuade parliament and the former President, His Excellency John Dramani Mahama to accept and allow for the passage of the E-levy at the displeasure of the very congregants whom they lead, was to the dubious funding of the cathedral.
The YODEP President, Shareef Suleiman Nimbang pointed out that “the usage of the proceeds of the Heritage fund to foot the bill of such worthless project, unmindful of the devious attitude of the president towards funding such project of purity, was so uncharitable, faithless and portrays the clergy more as politicians in the shadows and very less as responsible men and women of God”.
Source: Nationaltymes.com
