CPP's Bomfeh sues Nana Addo's gov't over National Cathedral

A member of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh, has sued the government of Ghana at the Supreme Court challenging the  government’s decision to build a national cathedral.

In the writ, Mr Bomfeh, stated that he want “a declaration that the decision of the Government of Ghana to purposely endorse, assist, aid, partly sponsor, and/or support the construction of a National Cathedral near the State House of Ghana, for Christian interdenominational church services amounts to an excessive entanglement of the Republic of Ghana and religion and therefore unconstitutional”.

President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the early hours of the 60th Independence Day cut sod for the construction of a National chapel to mark the 60th Anniversary of Ghana.

                

However, the plaintiff, James Kwabena Bomfeh thinks the government of Ghana has no business or whatsoever to interfere in religious activities in such manner. More so James Kwabena Bomfeh also wants the Apex Court of Ghana to declare the Hajj Board constituted by government illegal.

He has, therefore, sought “a declaration that the setting up of a Hajj Board by the Government of the Republic of Ghana for the purpose of coordinating, supporting and/or aiding Ghanaian Muslims to embark on a religious pilgrimage to Mecca…” is unconstitutional.