Minority leader Haruna Iddrisu says it is highly unacceptable and offensive that the bust statue unveiled in honor of the late president John Evans Atta Mills does not bear his name. it only indicates the names of President Akuffo Addo and Korku Anyidoho who sponsored the making of the statue.
“President and his associates must take immediate steps to go and correct that wrong and that anomaly.”
“We find it incredibly unacceptable and incredibly offensive but for the peaceful nature of the late John Mills, I would have just walked there and changed it myself. But that will not be in honour of the late J. E. A. Mills and I learned peace from him,” he noted.
He explains that persons who visit the Asomdwee Park must know that it’s the final resting place of the late John Evans Atta Mills who passed on in office and to his eternal memory, this bust has been mounted.
Brother of the Former President, Samuel Atta-Mills, had accused the Mr Anyidoho of tampering with the grave of their kin.
“Now that you have gone to touch it, is the bother still in that grave? What did you put in the grave? What kind of ritual did you perform over there? Why would you go and touch the grave without informing us? Who has the body now? And that is the question I want to ask Ghanaians. Do you want to make us go through grief every time?”
But, Mr Anyidoho, dismissed the claims by the family. He explained that the state was restoring the dignity of the late president’s burial grounds.
