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Plans for a National Cathedral and to revamp a monument to independence leader Kwame Nkrumah are becoming a political battleground, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo described the project to build a National Cathedral in Accra as 'an opportunity to redeem a pledge I made to [God] before I became President', but the blueprint is beset by controversy about cost overruns and the links between the President and some Christian groups.

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The business of producing things for others in faraway markets, in other words, has taken strong precedence over producing palpable improvements in the lives of ordinary people, and the trickle down is scant

Many suspect a scheme to turn a protected forest into Accra's answer to Central Park are ecologically dangerous and a cover for corruption, A decision by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's government to reclassify a large part of the Achimota Forest reserve in Accra – the only urban forest in the country – has met with fierce opposition from civil society groups and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).