National Cathedral project is individualistic; not a collective vow – Sonnie Badu 

Gospel musician Sonnie Badu has waded in the conversation regarding the construction of the controversial National Cathedral.

In a recent interview with Takoradi-based Empire FM, he told ShowBiz Today host Feeling Daddy that, what may have caused the debate about the propriety or otherwise of the cathedral is the fact that it is a vow made to God by one person.

“The reason why there are a lot of problems and confusion is that it was not a collective vow. It was an individualistic vow and that is why there is a little bit of an issue there,” he said.

Buttressing his point with some Biblical examples, Sonnie said people who made vows to God in the Biblical times ensured they honoured them.

“If that was the vow that the President gave to God, then he needs to honour his vow. When you read the Bible, people made vows to God and they fulfilled them. So you asking me if it is necessary, I will say that if he vowed to God he needs to honour.

But that is very personal between him and his God. So it’s more like ‘I have promised God so I need to use my own money to fulfil it’. But when it’s like ‘I have promised God so let’s all do it’, that is where the whole confusion is,” he indicated.

Sonnie Badu, however, noted that the idea of the National Cathedral is a good one.

“A cathedral is a good thing. Just as there are a lot of mosques that Muslims put together for people to go there to worship, a National Cathedral, something for the nation is not a bad idea,” he added.