The family of the late former President of Ghana, John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills has lamented bitterly to the government for allowing the tomb of the former president to be treated with disrespect.
According to them, the government has allowed an NGO run by former deputy General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Koku Anyidoho, to tamper with the tomb of the former President at the Asomdwee Park.
The Atta Mills Institute led by Mr Anyidoho with the help of the government through the Coastal Development Authority is renovating the Asomdwe Park where the late President is buried.
It is therefore due to this development that the brother of the late President, Samuel Atta Mills, speaking to the media in Parliament on Tuesday July 19, 2022, described the action as disrespect on the side of the government.
According to him, the government should have consulted the family before embarking on such project.
“This is an insult to the family, this is an insult to the nation, this is an insult to the Akans. Now the government allows an NGO to run Asomdwee Park. President Atta Mills is not the only president who has passed away in Ghana, other presidents have passed away.
“It is a very serious thing but the government has to provide the body of President John Atta Mills, we want to find out where the body is. What have you done with it, what kind of rituals did you perform over there, when curses start coming after you don’t blame anybody,” Mr Samuel Atta Mills told the media.
However, the former Youth and Sports Minister Nii Lantey Vanderpuye together with some MPs visited the graveside on Tuesday to express their displeasure about the situation, showing pictures of the grave with its tomb removed.