Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons has raised issues about the absence of a project management professional on the governing board of the National Cathedral Project.
The board was mainly made up of senior clergymen but Bright Simons said that a project management professional should have been there to provide real professional advice.
Rating the National Cathedral on costs and benefits, he posted on X that "A lot of the contingents requires professional judgement and professional judgements are in this room, there are project managers who will tell you that, looking at that thing you have put out there or the drawing, this one hundred million dollars won't work. "So they start at 100 million Dollars and they are now at 400 million Dollars.
Some of those conversations around the exercise of professional judgements, I have nothing against the great men in cassock, they are very important but you can't build such a massive project and on the governing board there is no single project management professional. "There was not a single project management professional in that room." Whether you're a current affairs buff obsessed with hot issues like National Cathedral, Agenda 111, Bank of Ghana HQ, or just a young professional looking to sharpen your analytical skills, this lecture video is for you: https://t.co/JDnrKKVxwd By kind courtesy of PMI-Ghana. - Bright Simons (@BBSimons) March 6, 2025 The National Cathedral project was a pledge President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made to his God when he was campaigning ahead of the 2016 presidential elections.
