It is despicable even curious that a decade after a sitting president died in office, the cause of his death continues to be veiled in uncertainties.
The voice of Koku Anyidoho, the man who served as the Communications Director of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, as he incessantly calls for an inquest, has not elicited a state support in that regard. Â There is something he is not comfortable with about how his boss died and this is shared by most Ghanaians. Those who demur are persons who have something to hide.
Isn’t it amazing that even in the midst of allegations of complicity against some persons through insinuations and innuendos, the subject perpetually remains cold and hardly given a fillip?
There is something some persons do not want Ghanaians and the outside world to know about who and what killed the former professor and President. It is as though there was a rehearsal of keeping mute on the part of those who know the critical details when questions are posed about who or even what killed Atta Mills. Regardless of how much the insinuations get close to them, they have succeeded in avoiding a response, let alone a debate.
The subject will not be muted by time if that is what those who have questions to answer about the subject think.
The four MPs who have tabled a motion calling for a bipartisan probe into the circumstances leading to the former President’s death must be lauded for their action. Let them persist until the answers are publicised.
The MPs are speaking for many Ghanaians who would rather wish that the subject is given an appropriate closure, and this can only happen when we are told the truth.
Many questions require answers about how the man died and what was the immediate cause of death. How come a sitting president, when he was driven to the military health facility, his ADC was nowhere to be found? The lackadaisical manner in which he was brought to the facility raises suspicions.
In whose interest is it to keep certain details under wraps? Such telltale answers will assist us to draw our individual conclusions. The guesswork has persisted for too long.
The panel to be set up should be bipartisan and include an independent pathologist so that at the end of the enquiry, we would be served a clean report which tells a verifiable story.
As for the truth, it shall be out with time.