Randy Abbey, the Host of ‘Good Morning Ghana’ programme, has sought explanations about the impact of the ‘identity crisis’ surrounding the person of Reverend Victor Kusi Boateng, a member and secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral Project.
The ‘Good Morning Ghana ‘programme host has had concerns that the country had officially recognized Kusi Boateng at one point and also his supposed pseudonym, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi, despite presenting entirely different registration documents for national IDs. As such, he is at loss of words for the confusion erecting around this case.
According to records made available by the North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the embattled clergyman is registered in Cathedral incorporation credentials as Victor Kusi Boateng, yet his diplomatic passport bears the name, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
“If you are registering Trustees, the official registration with the Registrar of Companies and trustee, gives you an ID because it is a requirement for the registration, which is what the law know him as.
“And we are told that there is a drivers’ licence or so, which is a statutory document which is accepted by the Registrar of Companies, which the state takes and uses to register the said person (as Victor Kusi Boateng) and if you go to their website, it is there, and if you take the letterheads, that name is there too.”
Randy Abbey
Randy Abbey lamented that the same state decided to issue the person a diplomatic passport to facilitate his work as far as the Cathedral was concerned but that particular diplomatic passport was then issued in an identity other than the one the state registered him with as a trustee with the Registrar of Companies.
He cited how the Passport Office had failed to flag the applications in respect to Kusi Boateng and Adu Gyamfi despite using a biometric verification method, and that this has broken the trust in critical identification systems.
“If it turns out that, that same institution has issued a biometric passport in a particular name, with the same photograph and same fingerprints and then has issued a biometric passport in another one.
“If you look at all these issues, it questions either the complicity or the lack of integrity of the systems that we are running, that we think are good.”
Randy Abbey
Ablakwa Still Accuses Secretary
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa still stands by his truth where he accuses the Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, Rev. Kusi Boateng for being a fraud and a liar.
The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency and a Ranking Member on Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has over the last few months made posts online about corporate governance and alleged financial infractions on the part of government and trustees in the building of the National Cathedral.
Ablakwa has currently been injuncted by the law court from further publications of private and personal ID details of Kusi Boateng, who has also sued the MP for defamation. News reaching the public shows that Ablakwa was served the letter days ago but has not been seen at home nor in public yet in order to be served, but when finally caught up with, he refused to accept the letter.
The lawmaker has since the beginning of this year disclosed statutory documents purporting to prove that Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng, is operating under the pseudonym Kwabena Adu Gyamfi for criminal purposes. Ablakwa has stood by the accusations that the Pastor’s company (JNS Talent Center) was paid an unmerited sum from the National Cathedral kitty, even though the Secretary has explained that the GHC2.6 million paid to Rev Kusi Boateng was a loan repayment.
According to Ablakwa, the Board of Trustees never discussed acquiring a loan facility and at the time the loan was acquired, the Cathedral had about $6 million in its bank accounts.
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