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President of Ghana from 2009 to 2012

John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills (21 July 1944 – 24 July 2012) was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as the 11th president of Ghana from 2009 until his death in 2012. He was inaugurated on 7 January 2009, having defeated the governing party candidate Nana Akufo-Addo in the 2008 Ghanaian presidential election. He was previously the third vice president from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he contested unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He was the first Ghanaian head of state to die in office.

Early life

Mills was born on 21 July 1944 in Tarkwa, in the Western Region of Ghana. His parents were John Atta Mills Sr., an educationist, who taught at the Komenda Teacher Training College and Mercy Dawson Amoah. He was the second child (and first son) among seven siblings. A member of the Fante ethnic group, he hailed from the town of Ekumfi Otuam in the Mfantsiman East constituency of the Central Region of Ghana. He had his primary and middle school education at Huni ValleyMethodistPrimary School and KomendaMethodistMiddle School respectively. He then proceeded to the prestigious Achimota School for his secondary education, where he completed the Ordinary and Advanced-Level Certificates in 1961 and 1963 respectively, and the University of Ghana, Legon, where he completed a bachelor of law degree, LLB and a professional law certificate in 1967.

Mills studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science where he obtained an LLM in 1968 and earned a PhD in Law at the School of Oriental and African Studies School of Law, part of the federal University of London, after completing his doctoral thesis in the field of taxation and economic development in

INTRODUCTION

I have concentrated on writing on educational issues and refrained from tackling political matters for some time now due to some reasons. But the political shenanigans, subterfuge, and storylines packed with political chicanery about the death of President John Evans Atta Mills over eleven years ago have forced me out of my rathole to write this piece. The challenge, which I have chosen to style the *”Koku Anyidoho Conundrum”* needs to be addressed once and for all.

BACKGROUND

Prof. John Evans Atta Mills was favoured by God to be elected as the President of Ghana in December 2008 by the good people of Ghana after two earlier unsuccessful attempts in 2000 and 2004.

He was born in Tarkwa in the Western Region of Ghana on 21st July 1944 to Mr. John Atta Mills Sr., an educator, and Madam Mercy Dawson Amoah, both Fantes of blessed memory. President J. E. Atta Mills died three days after his 68th birthday, on 24th July 2012, and was buried on August 10, 2012, in Accra.

His known biological brothers from the same father and same mother are Dr. Cadman Atta Mills, an Economist, and Hon. Samuel Atta Mills, Member of Parliament for the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem constituency in the Central Region of Ghana.

 One of Prof. Mills’s employees that worked at the Osu Castle, then the seat of Government, with him and his Vice, H. E. John Dramani Mahama was Samuel Koku Anyidoho, an Eʋe whose father hails from Tanyigbe near Ho in the Volta Region. He was the Director of Communications at the Seat of Government.

MEDICAL CONDITIONS OF PRESIDENT J. E. ATTA MILLS

Prior to the demise of President John Evans Atta Mills, popularly called Asomdwehene (Prince of Peace), Ghanaians became aware of his health conditions, which the New Patriotic Party (NPP), then in opposition made political capital out of. They called on Prof Mills to resign as president, citing his ill health. That was after their demands several times on the late President to make pu