The Late President John Evans Attah Mills
FOUR MEMBERS of Parliament (MPs) belonging to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) have tabled a motion for Parliament to establish a bipartisan committee probe into the death of former President John Evans Atta Mills.
The sponsors of the private members’ motion are Frank Annoh-Dompreh, Majority Chief Whip and MP for Nsawam-Adoagyiri; Habib Iddrissu, Second Deputy Majority Whip and MP for Tolon; Davis Ansah Opoku, MP for Mpraeso; and Yves Nii Noi Hanson-Nortey, MP for Tema Central.
They want the House to constitute a bipartisan committee to “unravel the unending mystery surrounding the death of late President Mills, which sad event occurred on July 24, 2012,” according to the motion filed yesterday.
The move comes on the heels of calls to investigate and report on the facts and the causes of the former President’s demise, amidst several allegations.
Former Deputy General Secretary, Samuel Koku Anyidoho, has not ceased demanding for an investigation from the state to ascertain the actual cause of death of Prof. Mills, whom he worked with as Director of Communications at the Presidency.
In a post on Twitter, Mr. Anyidoho wrote, “I am an accomplished citizen of Ghana, with All Rights accruing to me under the Constitution of the Republic. After 10 years of his death, I am respectfully requesting an, inquest, into the death of President John Evans Atta-Mills. God bless our Homeland Ghana.”
In his letter to the CID, he indicated that it has become necessary after a fanatic of former President John Mahama claimed that he (Koku) had a hand in Prof. Mills’ death.
“I am tired of these claims against me. I have petitioned the CID to do an inquest into the death of late President Atta Mills. It is my belief that there would be finality to the mystery surrounding the late Atta Mills’ death,” he told Asempa FM Tuesday.
In July 2017, the family of Professor John Evans Atta Mills said they were open to any investigation on the cause of death of the former Ghanaian leader.
Head of the family, Ato Harry Brew, indicated that “if the opinion of the country is that it should be done then it has to be done,” adding that the probe would clarify the cause of death of the former president.
“We won’t mind if the new government probes what actually caused the death of our brother, the president. We don’t mind if they do that so that everything will be clarified,” he stressed.
Mills passed away on July 24, 2012, five months before the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections, and the cause of his death divided the nation on whether to make his autopsy public or not.