The Minority through its leader, Mr Haruna Iddrisu has questioned why the name of the late former President, John Evans Atta-Mills was omitted from the bust (stone carrying inscriptions on bust).
On Sunday, 24th July 2022, the renovated Asomdwee Park, where Ghana’s former President John Evans Atta-Mills was laid to rest in 2012 was inaugurated.
The ‘New’ Asomdwee Park was commissioned by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo.
It was renovated by the Atta-Mills Institute in collaboration with the Coastal Development Authority.
In 2020, President Akufo Addo, tasked the Coastal Development Authority with an important assignment to execute on behalf of the people of Ghana a befitting renovation of the Asomdwee Park upon receiving a request from the Atta-Mills Institute for government’s support in renovating the Park.
Speaking at a short ceremony to commission the Park and also mark the 10th anniversary of the passing of former President John Evans Atta-Mills, President Akufo Addo said, it was not right that the park had been allowed to deteriorate considerably over the years since the burial of former President Mills in 2012.
Before the commissioning of the Park, some members of former President Atta-Mills’ family accused the government and the Coastal Development Authority of neglecting the family in the attempt to renovate the Park and requested the body of President Mills be given to them for reburial in his hometown, Ekumfi-Atuam in the Central Region.
But responding to the said allegations, President Akufo Addo indicated that, such malicious and purported statements should be dismissed by the people of this great Nation.
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Minority’s take
Reacting to the commissioning of the renovated Asomdwee Park, Mr Haruna Iddrisu said the minority and the family of the late President were surprised to see the name of President Akufo-Addo and the Chief Executive Officer of Atta-Mills memorial institute, Koku Anyidaho on the bust instead of the late President, John Evans Fiifi Atta-Mills.
Mr Haruna therefore called on President Akufo-Addo and others who erected the bust, with immediate effect to change the inscriptions and replace it with the name of the late former President Atta-Mills and a brief history of him.
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