Hot Now: Ablakwa to reveal ‘mother of all scandals’ on Monday

Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, a member of parliament for the North Tongu Constituency, says that on Monday, January 16, he will release a story that will shake the National Cathedral of Ghana project to its core.

Since the project began in 2018, the lawmaker from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has always been critical of it.

He says that people have called him names like "Tobiah," "naysayer," and "anti-Christ" because of his criticism.

The Ranking Member of Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee brought up the fact that money was taken "wantonly" from the country's emergency fund to support the project, even though the government had promised not to do so.

When he went before the eight-person ad hoc committee set up by Speaker Alban Sumana Bagbin to ask for his removal by censure, he got into a fight with Gabby Otchere Darko, the lawyer for Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.

Mr. Okudzeto Ablakwa says that the name-calling is because of how closely the project is being watched.

But he told Paa Kwesi Asare on The Keypoints on TV3 on Saturday, January 14, that he will not stop criticizing the project because it is a "personal promise" of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and shouldn't waste state money.

He said that even the destruction of historic buildings like the Scholarship Secretariat, where past leaders of the country got money to go to college abroad, was expensive for the country.

"I'm doing what the Ghanaian constitution and the whole idea of checks and balances tell me to do," he said.

"Site Galamsey"
He said that Monday's expose will be the "mother of all scandals" since the project began, and Ghanaians will be shocked by it.

He thinks that the project, which he calls a "galamsey site," must be held responsible.

"This National Cathedral project needs a full forensic investigation. That's the first thing we have to do."

He said, "On Monday, the biggest scandal in the history of the National Cathedral will be made public."