Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, leader of Lighthouse Chapel International has disclosed how he was sidelined as trustee of the National Cathedral.
In his resignation letter as a trustee, Bishop Heward-Mills cited several reasons for his decision to step back from the controversial project.
He said his opinions and ideas on the cost and fundraising of the Cathedral were set aside.
“I feel that the treatment of the issues I have raised in my several letters has been unfortunate”, he said in his resignation letter, explaining: “My letters have been ignored in the past, not attended to for years, and, at best, addressed flippantly”, he wrote in the letter sighted by Accra based Citi FM.
“You may recall I have spoken passionately and written extensively about the costs, the design, the location, the fundraising, the mobilisation of the churches, and the role of the trustees. These, if heeded, would have made our project more achievable. Generally speaking, my inputs, my opinions, and my letters have been trivialised and set aside.”
He also said though the project was initiated six years ago, it has stalled due to the methods being used by the Cathedral Secretariat.
“I am a firm believer in the president’s vision. I believe that the public can see and is questioning the fact that we have spent almost six years since the sod-cutting of this project as well as over $30m (thirty million dollars) of public funds, to excavate a massive pit in the centre of the city”, he noted.
“I do believe that many of the questions that are being asked and hurled at the National Cathedral Project are reasonable and legitimate questions by objective citizens who just want answers to their questions”, the founder of Lighthouse Chapel International said.
“I do believe that the fund-raising methods we have attempted have not yielded much. Indeed, some of the programmes we have held have cost more than the monies we have raised from them. I suggest another form of fund-raising where we would be guaranteed more donations from denominations, churches, individuals, businessmen and corporate bodies. I would be happy to discuss these if the committee is interested in that”, portions of the letter read.
Bishop Heward-Mills also complained that despite his appointment by President Nana Akufo-Addo as trustee, he was never registered as a Director of the Company of the National Cathedral of Ghana, a company limited by guarantee.
Source: GhanaFeed.com