Pastor Mensa Otabil, the founder of International Central Gospel Church, is no longer recognized as a member of the National Cathedral of Ghana’s Board of Trustees as his name appears missing from the list of trustees on the cathedral’s website as of Wednesday, June 15, 2022, OilCity Radio can confirm.
The news comes only days after Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Member of Parliament for North Tongu, said that Pastor Otabil had resigned from the Cathedral project’s board a year ago.
On June 13, 2022, he wrote: “The Akufo-Addo Cathedral grand deception continues unabashedly:
“Government is well aware the revered Pastor Mensa Otabil has walked away from this cathedral project more than a year ago, and yet the government continues to publish on its cathedral website www.nationalcathedralghana.org that Pastor Otabil is a member of the Board of Trustees”.
In a series of tweets, Mr. Ablakwa further accused the government of utilizing public monies to enable the development of a project it promoted as President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo’s personal and private vow.
Apostle Prof. Opoku Onyinah, Chairman of the Church of Pentecost, chairs the National Cathedral of Ghana’s 13-member Board of Trustees, with Archbishop Charles Palmer-Buckle, Metropolitan Catholic Archbishop of Cape Coast, serving as Vice Chairman.
The members include Most Rev. Bishop Justice Ofei Akrofi, Anglican Archbishop Emeritus; Rt. Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Martey, former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church; Most Rev T. K. Awotwi Pratt, Presiding Bishop of the Methodist Church; Rev Prof Cephas Omenyo, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church; Archbishop Nicholas Duncan-Williams, Presiding Archbishop and General Overseer of Action Chapel International; Rev Dr Joyce Aryee, Executive Director, Salt and Light Ministries; Bishop Dag Heward-Mills, Presiding Bishop, Lighthouse Group of Churches; Rev Eastwood Anaba, Founder and President of Eastwood Anaba Ministries; Rev Victor Kusi-Boateng, Founder of Power Chapel Worldwide; and Rev Dr Frimpong Manso, General Superintendent, Assemblies of God.
