The contempt case against North Tongu Member of Parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, in relation to Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng/Kwabena Adu Gyamfi’s national cathedral scandal, is expected to be determined next month.
Revealed by Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa in a Facebook post, he stated that the High Court has slated judgement for May 5, 2023.
Moreover, he indicated that the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) has confirmed that it is still investigating the conflict of interest petition, filed against Rev. Victor Kusi Boateng and Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
“CHRAJ subsequently requested additional documentation, which I promptly and dutifully submitted on the 9th of March 2023”, he posted.
The North Tongu MP, reaffirmed his commitment to seeing the matter through to its conclusion, declaring that “the son of man shall not be silenced!” He also stated that there are new allegations of scandals surrounding the National Cathedral project, with new revelations expected to be made public in the coming days.
Rev. Kusi Boateng, Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral, has been accused of conflict of interest, following some monies he is said to have received from the National Cathedral Board of Trustees, under a different name; Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
Rev. Kusi Boateng And Ablakwa’s Case
The secretary to the Board, received his share of troubles pertaining to the National Cathedral, when the Honorable Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, deliberately accused him of fraud.
According to records made available by the North Tongu Member of Parliament, the embattled clergyman is registered in Cathedral incorporation credentials as Victor Kusi Boateng, yet his diplomatic passport bears the name, Kwabena Adu Gyamfi.
Deputy Minority Leader, Emmanuel Armah Kofi Buah, averred the Secretary to the Board of Trustees of the National Cathedral of Ghana, Reverend Victor Kusi Boateng, escaped from his own suit against North Tongu Member of Parliament, when he was supposed to show up in court.
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, specified that we dwell in a country where parliamentarians carrying out their constitutional oversight mandate, become victims of state sponsored harassment, strange court injunctions, judicial threats of imprisonment, even as double identity charlatans were protected and pampered, was definitely a mark of a nation in the dark abyss.
These back and forth between the people, the Members of Parliament and the National Cathedral project, urged Board Members to the National Cathedral, to seek for a suspension of the project, enabling a thorough financial audit and providing accountability to the people of Ghana.
However, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa stressed severally that he is ever ready to be a political prisoner of conscience, than to be coerced and compromised into a behind the scenes deal, with the corrosive enemies of the Republic. He said that he is ready to stand against the wiles of any enemy, that plots against him or anyone that throws any ugly aura at him.
“Nkrumah, Rawlings, Mandela, Kenyatta, Sisulu, Motlanthe, Desmond Tutu, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jnr, Thomas Mapfumo, Andrei Sakharov, Antonia Gramsci and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva have all taught us to overcome the fear of prison and be constantly of the indomitable belief that Truth and Justice cannot be imprisoned.”
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa
Ablakwa stood his ground, even after he was accused of corruption and tax fraud. He was then exonerated from all accusations, in the end.
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