Morbid Affair

 late President John Evans Atta Mills
Regrettably, the name of the late President John Evans Atta Mills has made a loud resurgence on the political space in a manner which leaves much to be desired.

It is an avoidable situation which apart from raising an already hot political temperature to a new level, is not in the interest of the spirit of the departed who played his part and does not deserve what his spirit is experiencing at the hands of the living.

There is no doubt that the circumstances under which the late academician/politician exited the ephemeral world triggered many queries. Unfortunately, those who sought answers to these queries were insulted and subjected to name-calling.

We were part of those who led the charge in demanding among other things, that a proper autopsy be conducted to obviate further questions about the immediate cause of death of the President John Evans Atta Mills.

Interment was arranged as it were, quickly in snobbish disregard of the mounting questions about the aforementioned circumstances.

Today the questions have returned as they would continue to do even in future until the immediate family members of the deceased and Ghanaians are told what was responsible for the immediate cause of death.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) National Organiser, Yaw Boateng Gyan, might have denied saying that he has a recording which can open a can of worms about what killed the former president that has not stopped the issue from going viral across the country and even in the Diaspora.

When the family head of the Mills' spoke yesterday he did not mince words in expressing the sentiment of their household about the anxiety to know what killed their kinsman giving credence to the fear that the issue at stake has become gangrenous and needs immediate healing.

Keeping the truth away from the family and Ghanaians stokes the fire of speculations, some of them dangerous about the cause of death.

Some of the speculations as put forth by the family head though scary, point at the nature of rumours being peddled around the country. Obviously, the government was scared and so did not allow as it were, the autopsy to be undertaken in the first place. That is the impression in town and we do not know why credence was given to it.

When one day another set of Ghanaians take over the seat of government and demand an exhumation and autopsy of the remains of the former president, the question as to whether some soldiers expedited the death of the good old Prof or he was hit with a stick as Paul Akom said he had heard, would be audited and put to rest. Until then the speculations would continue even if intermittent lulls set in.