The founder and leader of Royal House Chapel International, Rev. Sam Korankye Ankrah, has appealed to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to pay the contractors in his church so that they can pay their tithe.
The man of God’s appeal to the President follows calls by the Road Contractors Association of Ghana on the government to pay all arrears due its members.
Delivering his sermon on Sunday, 16 September 2019, Rev Korankye Ankrah appealed to the President thus: “Mr President, I have contractors and businessmen in my church, they must be paid for the work they have done so they can pay tithe and offerings so that we can go to Tamale Prisons, so we can go to Tamale University and hold crusades, so that we can preach the gospel so that we can help the poor, so that we can pay the school fees of the intelligent and the people who have graduated from the Free SHS who are now hanging, queueing, waiting for money to go to the university. Mr President, please pay my contractors for me, I beg, pay them, pay them”.
According to road contractors across the country, the government has failed to pay its members for work done in the past five years.
Secretary to the Chartered Institute of Buildings (CIOB), Reginald Obeng, revealed that some of their members have died due to the failure of the government to pay them.
The member of the Ghana Chamber of Construction Industry explained that the banks and other financial institutions that gave loans to their members for the works are chasing after them.
Mr Obeng appealed to the Akufo-Addo government to pay the debt inherited from the Mahama administration.
Speaking on Accra FM Thursday, 11 July 2019, Mr Obeng said: “The properties of our members, including houses used as collateral, are being confiscated by the banks and the financial institutions and this situation is rendering them homeless. Some are also dying out of frustration.”
He added: “We need a roadmap as to how the government will pay us. We know this government inherited the situation but it has been three years and we expect them to act quickly and pay us.
“They told us they were doing audits of the projects because the contracts were awarded when there were no secure funds.
“Some of the projects their members did for which we are not being paid include the E-blocks, CHPS compounds and roads in most of the districts across the country,” he added.
Mr Obeng further said a meeting has been scheduled with the Finance Ministry to deal with the situation.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Why is nobody ready to answer my question: let me repeat: where are the roads that government should pay for: every where you go in this country people are crying on government to fix their bad roads: so where are the much touted constructed roads: Why is pastor’s not asking their contractor members to show them the roads they constructed so that they will also be part of the audit of value for money , or they are only interested in their offerings and tithes but not the source of the these monies. Eiii the judgment Day
If what I read is right that some of the outstanding bills the government have to settle for work done by contractors dates as far back 2014.Why is that the then government in power could not settle such bills and now Nana Addo is being blamed. I suspect the debt burden on government has been blown out of proportion with respect to the contractors claims. Government should institute a thorough investigation/carry out audit in all the projects before one can qualify to collect his checque.
To all those speaking against this Rev.Sam Korankye Ankrah Don't show you ignorance here cause this is total absurdity.As information travels it gets distorted too so please guyz confirm before you speak ***barred word*** about my PAAPA.
GO and ask Mohamma where he kept the money so he can pay them for ur selfish desires. With all what the president is doing u still have the nerve to blame him.
EVERY COMMUNITY IS CRYING ABOUT THEIR POOR ROADS. PEOPLE REGION IS CRYING TO GOVERNMENT TO FIXED THEIR ROADS. A TYPICAL EXAMPLE IS LEKMA. IF THE STATE OWE CONTRACTORS SO MUCH AND YET ALMOST ALL OUR ROADS ARE IN POOR STATE, THE QUESTION THAT I KEEP ON ASKING IS WHICH ROADS OR WORKS DO THE STATE OWE THESE CONTRACTORS FOR?
Sam-Korankye-Ankrah, why dont you reduce your luxurious lifestyle and use some of the money you will save to fund your so-called Tiothes; which you alone control!!! Look at all the mansions you occupy at Sakaman and you want to talk n-ns-nse to us. You and most of you so-called Men of God; rob the poor to nourish your vulgar and opulent life-styles. Enough of your self-styled wealth-induced Religion.
Sam Korankye Ankrah, please don't show your ignorance here. The president is not the one to pay contractors if you don't know. Some of you pastors are the reasons Ghana find itself here. You have looted the poor to enrich yourselves and left the poor to wallow in their poverty while you are swimming in wealth. The days when public funds are easily given to you has ended and so you are crying...you have not seen anything yet. Oh! so that is why you prayed that warped prayer for JM to the effect that some people around him should die before 2020?
Has it come to this? Eeiiiii so this is how the clergy have reduced the Church to?
Osofo, with all due respect why don't you address the man who gave them the contracts in the first place and had no budgetary allocation for those contracts.