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Attorney General Dr. Dominic Ayine has launched a scathing critique of expenditure on the National Cathedral, asserting that the colossal sums sunk into the project could have been channelled into completing stalled hospitals under the previous government’s flagship Agenda 111 initiative.
Dr. Ayine made the remarks on Thursday, August 13, 2026, during the district launch of the Free Primary Health Care programme in the Bolga East Constituency, Upper East Region.
In an address that pivoted from health policy to fiscal accountability, the Attorney General interrogated the conception and execution of the National Cathedral project, with particular emphasis on the allocation of public resources.
He disclosed that a forensic review by audit and consulting firm PwC on the National Cathedral was submitted to his office on Friday, August 7, and its findings cast a damning light on the project’s opportunity cost.
“The PwC report on the National Cathedral was presented to me last Friday. The monies spent on the National Cathedral from that report could have been used to complete some Agenda 111 Hospitals.
“You don’t build a house of God in the manner in which they went about it,” Dr. Ayine stated.
Agenda 111, conceived under the Akufo-Addo administration, was envisioned as a transformative healthcare infrastructure drive to deliver hospitals to districts lacking adequate facilities. Many of those projects remain incomplete amid fiscal constraints.
The National Cathedral, championed by former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a monumental religious and national edifice, has been mired in controversy since inception. Public discourse has been dominated by questions over its funding model, ballooning expenditure, and sluggish progress.
The scrutiny has intensified against the backdrop of Ghana’s macroeconomic headwinds and the competing imperatives to invest in critical sectors such as healthcare, education and infrastructure.
Leveraging the health programme launch, Dr. Ayine made a compelling case for fiscal prioritisation, arguing that scarce public funds must be directed toward initiatives that yield direct and immediate benefits to citizens.
He cited the Free Primary Health Care programme as evidence of government’s commitment to expanding access to essential services, and urged a recalibration of national spending to address pressing social needs.