Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the head of the Lighthouse Group of Churches, received a response from the Board of Trustees of the contentious National Cathedral project regarding remarks he made in his letter of resignation.
The revered minister and all other trustees should understand that they won’t always get their way when making decisions, according the Board.
All leaders have their own perspectives on matters and should be respected, according to a press release released on January 18 and signed by Apostle Professor Opoku Onyinah, the board chairman.
It concluded by advising other members to accept and value opposing viewpoints or resign from the trusteeship.
“These churches and their leaders not only have deep-seated theological differences, but also different understandings and approaches to the development of the National Cathedral.
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“The challenge of such a group is that individual leaders, with a history of implementing their own organizational /denominational programs and vision, have to be part of a collective decision-making process where their preferences might not always prevail.
“Specifically, this means that no one leader can have all their preferences, methods, and approaches accepted. In this changed and unfamiliar context, some would prefer to leave the Trusteeship,” an excerpt of the release said.
Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, the presiding bishop of the Lighthouse Group of Churches, left the board in August 2022.
The venerable bishop expressed his discontent with certain activities of the board in his resignation letter.
The esteemed minister claimed that despite being a trustee and present at all meetings up until his departure, he was not involved in or given access to talks on the project’s financial and technical concerns.
The seasoned Bible teacher expressed alarm over a number of other issues, including the fact that important decisions were made by people other than the Board of Trustees.
Despite his support for the Cathedral’s construction, he said that these factors drove him to resign from the board.
“I have been a reachable and available trustee and attended every meeting of trustees since the pandemic began, in person and by zoom, and the records will show that.
If I say that I, as a trustee, do not know many of the financial and technical issues concerning the Cathedral, it means the discussions about the National Cathedral were held by some people outside the trustees’ meeting or perhaps in a forum that I was not present or invited to.”
“On the one hand, the National Cathedral is said to be a Government of Ghana project, with the government taking financial decisions. Yet, on another hand, at meetings, it is implied that the trustees have taken or participated in taking some decisions.”
Since the project was commissioned, one of the hotly debated public issues has been the National Cathedral Project.
Along with the accountability issues that the Minority in Parliament have repeatedly brought up, there have also been doubts regarding the project’s applicability in light of the nation’s current economic crisis.
Rev. Victor Kusi-Boateng, the Secretary of the National Cathedral Board of Trustees and the founder of Power Chapel Worldwide, has also been accused of having conflicts of interest and using many identities, among other shady business practices.
In the meantime, Dr. Paul Opoku Mensah, Executive Director of the National Cathedral of Ghana, has denied the accusations.
The sum paid on September 8, 2021, he explained, was a loan from a board member, whose identity he omitted.
Source: Myjoyonline
