Rev Kusi Boateng’s contempt application filed against Member of Parliament (MP) for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has been dismissed by the High Court in Accra.
The court presided over by Justice Charles Gyenfi Dankwa ruled that the application was flawed with inconsistencies with the applicant unable to prove beyond reasonable doubt the elements of contempt.
A cost of GHc10,000 was awarded against the applicant in favour of Okudzeto Ablakwa.
Secretary to the Board Trustees of the National Cathedral, Kwabena Adu Gyenfi also known as Rev Victor Kusi Boateng filed the application after the MP was alleged to have snubbed an injunction application that bars him from his crusade on cathedral matters.
Ruling on the application on Tuesday, May 2, the Court said there was no prove of service on the docket of the court showing that the MP was served with the processes at the first place.
The court also said, there were inconsistencies with the chronology of event as narrated by the applicant and that should inure into the benefit of the respondent.
The court held that Kwabena Adu Gyenfi and Rev Victor Kusi Boateng are two different people with two separate mothers pending the outcome of GRA investigation.
The Court also ruled that the Bailiff who was said to have served the processes was not a judiciary Service approved bailiff as per a directive issued by the CJ on November 2022.
Series of Explosive Revelations
Meanwhile, in the eve of the court ruling, Ablakwa has made serious revelations about the National Cathedral.
The lawmaker, who has been a serial critic of the project, alleging financial misappropriation and corporate governance breaches by the government, has made new disclosures as relates to the incorporation of the project in the United States.
His latest post of May 2, 2023, made a number of serious disclosures about the project, five of which are produced below: Cathedral project registered in Washington DC under different name; No member of clergyman on Ghana Board of Trustees listed in US documents; Address to US registration documents fraudulent
Ablakwa revealed in a write-up that the project is registered in the US state of Washington DC under the name: “National Cathedral of Ghana and Bible Museum Foundation, Inc.”
Ablakwa said Articles of Incorporation secured from the District of Columbia Government’s Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs (corporation’s division) confirm that a nonprofit corporation has been registered known as the “National Cathedral of Ghana and Bible Museum Foundation, Inc.”
This National Cathedral of Ghana and Bible Museum Foundation, Inc. received its Certificate of Incorporation with its effective date being May 3, 2021 and signed by Josef G. Gasimov, Superintendent of Corporations, Corporations Division, he stated.
Ablakwa stated that the name National Cathedral of Ghana and Museum Foundation, Inc. is unmistakably different from what was incorporated in Ghana some two years prior, specifically on the 18th of July, 2019 as the National Cathedral of Ghana.
Ablakwa revealed that even though there are three members listed as trustees in the US documentation, only one of them contained in counterpart registration papers of the National Cathedral of Ghana.
“In US corporate terms “governor” typically refers to a member of the board of directors. “We know Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah as the Executive Director of the “National” Cathedral Secretariat.
Okudzeto Ablakwa revealed that even though there are three members listed as trustees in the US documentation, only one of them contained in counterpart registration papers of the National Cathedral of Ghana.
“Curiously, we have also discovered that none of the prominent Ministers of the Gospel who serve as Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana feature in the articles of incorporation and list of governors as submitted to US authorities.
“The names of governors and authorized persons as contained in the Two-Year Report for Domestic & Foreign Filing Entity are: Dr. Paul Opoku-Mensah, Eric Okyere Darko and Dr. Vernon Darko.”
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