Founder and President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has lauded President Akufo-Addo for renovating the ‘Asomdwee Park’ which contains the mortal remains of former President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills.
Mr. Cudjoe says the President deserves commendation because the place was discarded by his own party folks, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), therefore making the attention given it by the Akufo-Addo government commendable.
In a post on his Facebook Friday, August 01, 2024, Mr. Cudjoe noted that: “Nana Akufo-Addo did one good thing! Renovated the discarded burial grounds of late President Mills by his own party!”
In describing the late President, Franklin Cudjoe said Prof. Mills is the only President of the current Republic who was competent and not corrupted.
“He bestowed honour on the soul of the only uncorrupted and competent President of the 4th Republic. Nana Addo deserves some accolades!” his post contained.
Abridged biography of the late President John Evans Atta Mills
His Excellency Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills, President of the Republic of Ghana from January 07, 2008 to July 24, 2012, was born in Tarkwa on July 21, 1944. He attended Achimota School and the University of Ghana, Legon where he studied Law.
Professor J.E.A. Mills graduated from the Faculty of Law with a Bachelor of Laws in 1967 and proceeded to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he was awarded a master’s degree, an LLM, in 1968. He earned his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London.
While pursuing the PhD programme which he completed at age 27, he was selected a Fulbright Scholar at the Stanford Law School in the USA. He returned to Ghana after earning his PhD in 1971 to lecture at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Legon, for the next 25 years.
He was appointed first as Acting Commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 1988 and confirmed as the Commissioner in 1989.
Professor Atta Mills was the Vice President of Ghana from 1997 to 2001 and became the President of Ghana in 2009 after the historic 2008 elections. President Atta Mills died on 24th July 2012, whilst in Office.
At the time of his death in 2012, he was the world’s only Fulbright Scholar to have been elected Head of State. President Atta Mills was a servant-leader, and an ardent lover of sports – his known specialties were sports, taxation and law.
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