The family of late former President, John Evans Atta Mills has asked President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to help them secure the autopsy report of their kinsman who died whilst serving as President of the Republic.
According to the family, since Prof. Mills’ death in 2012, it is yet to know what killed their relative.
Pleading at a visit to the Jubilee House to thank the President for renovating the Asomdwe Park –the burial grounds of the late former President, –the Kyedomhemaa of Ekumfi traditional area, Nana Enyimfua III, said the autopsy report will serve as a learning curve for the family and for posterity.
“One big problem I have as a queen mother in the family is that, since I assumed the seat, I have not seen any autopsy report and that’s the biggest problem of my family and I because if someone asks of the cause of my kinsman’s death, I don’t know whether the doctor said he had a broken limb, neck or drank something.
“So, we’ll plead with you and your government and I plead on behalf of the entire family to get the family the autopsy report so we can keep it for posterity sake. Because neither myself nor any child from the family knows what killed our relative. This is my utmost plea to this house today.
“Please, I’m on my knees, and on my stool’s behalf plead with you to get us the autopsy report before you exit office,” she pleaded.
In his reaction, President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said “I don’t understand why you’ve still not received the autopsy report up to now.” He questioned the President of the Atta Mills Foundation, Samuel Koku Anyidoho who led the family to the Presidency, “is there a reason for it?”
In his response, Mr. Anyidoho said no autopsy report was presented to anyone that he is aware of. However, it was the late President’s brother, Samuel Atta Mills who once said through an interview he granted to a media house that the report report was given to him and he has it in his possession.
President Akufo-Addo’s reaction, was that since Prof. Mills died whilst serving as President of the land, the autopsy report “should be part of the public records” assuring the family that “we’ll have to find out how to proceed on that.”
“But it’s a legitimate demand,” he concluded.
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Credit: Nana Aduah|TV3
