I Did No Wrong In Releasing Funds For National Cathedral Project – Ofori Atta

The Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, has insisted that he breached no law in releasing funds for the National Cathedral project. “I say with both humility and confidence that I have not breached the Constitution in making payments to support the construction of the National Cathedral of Ghana,” he told an ad-hoc committee tasked to probe a censure motion against him. The Finance Minister also denied claims by the proponents of the motion that he made an unconstitutional withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund to fund the project. The Minority in Parliament had accused Ofori-Atta of “unconstitutional withdrawals from the Consolidated Fund…