Veteran broadcaster Kwesi Pratt has boldly told President John Dramani Mahama that the government of Ghana has no business building a place of worship.
Mr Pratt made this known when he lashed out over the Christian Council of Ghana’s plea to President John Mahama to complete the stalled National Cathedral project.
According to Kwesi Pratt, the people of Ghana did not elect President Mahama to pray for them but to use the country’s resources to ensure that resources are used sensibly to resolve their concrete problems.
He boldly asserted that Ghanaians can pray for themselves in their numerous religious centres.
Kwesi Pratt expressed his disappointment with the Christian Council, which admitted that the people of Ghana are going through excruciating hardship, but asked the President to continue building the National Cathedral.
In a post on X, Kwesi Pratt wrote, “I DISAGREE. Many things appear to have happened when the leadership of the Christian Council called on the President at the @flagstaffhouse1 Flagstaff House.
It is interesting that the Christian Council could ask the President to continue building the so-called National Cathedral even as they admitted that the people of Ghana are going through excruciating hardship”.
He added, “What worries me is not the insensitivity of the men and women in cassocks. It is the response of the @JDMahama President, who said that after the audit on the cathedral is finished, he will sit down with them to discuss how to build a fitting place of worship.
The point must be made that the Government has no business building any place of worship with anybody.
The people of Ghana did not elect President Mahama to pray for them. They can do that for themselves in their numerous religious centres. They voted for Mahama and the NDC to ensure that national resources are used sensibly to resolve their concrete problems of unemployment, poor national infrastructure, limited access to social services and neo-colonial exploitation”.
Furthermore, Rev Stephen Adom Kyei Duah, the Founder and Leader of the Believers Worship Centre, has cautioned President John Mahama and the NDC to remain focused.
The man of God urged the John Mahama-led NDC government to remain focused on managing Ghana and to disregard the Christian Council’s appeal for the completion of the National Cathedral.
According to Rev Stephen Adom Kyei Duah, the National Cathedral project is the biggest swimming pool in the country.
He highlighted that if the government is not a church, to is building a Cathedral, arguing that if God needs a Cathedral, it would not have anything to do with the government.
Rev Adom Kyei further cited the Muslims building their mosques without the government’s support.
Speaking to his congregants during a church service, Rev Adom Kyei Duah explained, “I am advising the NDC government and President John Mahama to remain focused. The biggest swimming pool… if God wants a cathedral, would it have anything to do with the government? Is the government a church? When Muslims build mosques, do you see any of them going to the government?”
The man of God further fired shots at the Christian Council of Ghana for labelling him as an anti-Christ.
“If your prayers are answered, you will not be going to the Jubilee House to go and beg. Since you have declared me anti-Christ, you will then abandon Jesus and start to follow me”, he added.
Their comments comes on the back of the Christian Council appealing to the Mahama administration to consider completing the contentious National Cathedral project.
Meanwhile, President John Dramani Mahama has told the Christian Council it is excessive at this time to spend 400 million dollars on a National cathedral.
According to John Mahama, the 400 million cost for the National Cathedral is excessive, citing that Nigeria built an ecumenical centre at $40 million.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by the Christian Council of Ghana to the Jubilee House on November 18, 2025, John Mahama stated, “I believe that at this time and age, with all the problems we have, $400 million to build a cathedral is excessive. I know Nigeria have built an ecumenical centre and I’ve been there.
It’s a decent, beautiful place, and they built it for $40 million. And so, maybe some of the things are excessive, you know. Let’s find somewhere, all of us, on the National Day of Thanksgiving and worship. We can all go there and worship God and thank him for what he has done for us,” he said.
President John Mahama further added that after the forensic audit into the National Cathedral, he will engage the Christian community to see how Ghana can build a place that is decent for worship.
“When that forensic audit is over, our intention is to have a broad-based consultation with the Christian community to see how we can build a place that is decent for us to worship. But apart from that, make it a centre where people can come and, I mean, look at its architecture and all that and find that Christ, you know, has a place in our hearts, in our nation. And so, when the time comes, we’ll do that consultation and we’ll decide together how we want to go forward,” he added.
See the post below:
#I DISAGREE
— Kwesi Pratt Jnr. (@kwesiprattjr) November 23, 2025
Many things appear to have happened when the leadership of the Christian Council called on the President at the @flagstaffhouse1 Flagstaff House.
It is interesting that the Christian Council could ask the President to continue building the so-called National Cathedral… pic.twitter.com/5bRUprSdaI