Atta Mills Bomb: Mills’ Brother Invokes Curse On Anyidoho - Blames NPP Government For Supporting Anyidoho Against the family
The brother of the late President Prof.John Evan Atta Mills, Dr Cadman Mills, has invoked curses on the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mills Institute, Mr. Koku Anyidoho, accusing of opening the coffin of the late Prof. Atta Mills without the knowledge and approval of the Atta Mills family members from Ekumfi Otuam, Nanaben, Denkyira and Cape Coast in the Central Region.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
The brother of the late President Prof.John Evan Atta Mills, Dr Cadman Mills, has invoked curses on the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mills Institute, Mr. Koku Anyidoho, accusing of opening the coffin of the late Prof. Atta Mills without the knowledge and approval of the Atta Mills family members from Ekumfi Otuam, Nanaben, Denkyira and Cape Coast in the Central Region.
Speaking in an interview on Angel TV morning show on Wednesday July 20,22, Dr. Mills in an angry tone stated that "We are going to deal with that boy referring to Koku Anyidoho spiritually, traditionally and physically, and in the spiritual ralm the court cannot even judge the case the family of Mills and Koku Anyidoho.
Dr Cadman Mills remark follows the wide spread media report of the tomb of Atta Mills broken by the AMI and Coastal Development Authority (CODA) with the knowledge of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo which situation Dr Cadman Mills described as shocking and unfortunate.
Dr Cadman Mills fumed that "It has been the long when this boy (Koku Anyidoho) started this bad things and that since we did not mind him, he has proceeded to do the worse."
Dr Cadman Mills on behalf of the Mills' family protested desecration of Prof Atta Mills tomb, saying that they unhappy about the redevelopment of the Asomdwee Park.
According to him, the Coastal Development Authority, CODA, together with some private NGO have tampered with the tomb of the late President without recourse to the family.
He said, the development is culturally offensive.
The MP for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo Abirem, while addressing the press in Parliament on Tuesday, July 19, said the family takes exception to any activity by a private NGO in the name of their late brother and wondered if the body of the late President still lies in the grave at the Asomdwee Park.
“A group calling itself Atta Mills Institute that the family doesn’t even recognize, and Coastal Development Authority, have gone to break the grave of President John Evans Atta Mills. They have removed the tomb, and they claim that they are rebuilding it.
“My question is that, we have a family tradition. Now that they have touched someone’s grave, is the body still in there? Who has the body? Why will you touch the body without informing the family head? Under whose authority? Why do they want us to always go through grief? Now, you allowed somebody like Koku Anyidoho, that buffoon, working with Atta Mills Institute to go and touch this grave without informing our family head; this is a former President, why will the government allow this to happen? This is an insult to the family and the nation,” Samuel Atta-Mills said.
He, then charged the government to provide the body of President John Evans Atta Mills.
But in a quick response, Mr Anyidoho who doubles an aide to the former President, John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills is wondering if it is appropriate for any individual to claim that the tomb of the late President has been removed.
Reacting to accusations levelled against him by the younger brother of the late President, Samuel Atta Mills, the founder and CEO of the Atta Mills Institute said, it does not make sense for any right-thinking individual to make such accusations.
"Removal of the tomb, does it make sense; who removed the tomb? John Dramani Mahama deliberately refused to build Asomdwee Park; Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, President of the Republic is building Asomdwee Park, is that what is hurting Sammy Atta Mills. Tell him to produce the autopsy report of the death of his brother.
"Asomdwee Park is being built. A 'wawa' board was used to cover the grave of President Atta Mills; it has been removed and we are putting granite stone to raise the level and the image of the former President's final resting place, is that what is hurting Sammy Atta Mills? What John Mahama refused to do, President Akufo-Addo is doing it; is that what is hurting Sammy Atta Mills?" Koku Anyidoho quizzed in an interview with Accra-based Joy News.
He continued: "Ask Sammy Atta Mills that in the last 10 years, has he ever visited Asomdwee Park to care for the remains of his brother? Where is the autopsy report? Sammy Atta Mills has questions to answer.
When asked if the family was informed before the 'wawa' board was removed to replace with the granite stones, Anyidoho retorted "family, has he been concerned about Asomdwee Park? Sammy Atta Mills should be ashamed of himself.
"The state is doing something to honour the memory of the former President of the Republic of Ghana. What we are doing, what we have done is just for God to be glorified in Ghana to move away from the level of ignominy that Asomdwee Park sat in. Sammy Atta Mills should be ashamed of himself."
Meanwhile, the NDC in a statement has said, the Asomdwee Park does not belong to Koku Anyidoho.
A statement signed by the General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia and copied to GhanaWeb said:
“Indeed, the facility was developed by the National Security Office during the tenure of H.E John Dramani Mahama and remains a National Monument as well as a place of pilgrimage to honour the memory of dignitaries buried there. It was designed to be managed by the national security office with access authorized only by that office.
“While it is in order for the Government of Ghana to organize functions at the facility and invite persons to same, it is, in our candid view, wholly inappropriate for any private entity to be given an office at the location, directly or indirectly conferring on it a role as overseer even to the extent of issuing invitations in the name of the state,” the statement signed by Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the party said.
In a few days, the 10th anniversary of Mills' passing will be observed.
Ghana’s first Presidential mausoleum and burial ground of Ghana’s late President John Evans Atta Mills, the Asomdwee Park, is currently in a deplorable state.
There were reports that the park was no longer secure as its security had been left in a sorry state and no longer a secured place at least befitting enough for former leaders worth celebrating.
The condition of the park and the late President’s tomb is nothing to write home about, as some parts of the fencing protecting it have broken down.
Professor John Evans Atta Mills previously served as Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He is the first sitting Ghanaian head of state to die in office and was subsequently laid to rest at the Asomdwee Park.
Prof Mills was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012.
