“Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full
of trouble. He cometh forth like a flower and is cut down; he fleeth also as a
shadow and continueth not …… Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean?
(Job 14:1-3).
The late President played his part and left the
scene like a bad actor. In fact, his name has been expunged from the Dictionary
of the Nefarious Destructive Cancer like a bad actor who frets and frets upon
the stage and then is heard no more. Contrary to the Akan tradition, a “Thank
You” tour was embarked upon not by the family of the deceased but by President
John Dramani Mahama, sole beneficiary of Mills death. Nobody embarks on such a
‘tour’ without being accompanied by family members and the spouse of the
deceased.
Again, if we were to go by the Akan tradition, there
should have been a “Forty Days” ceremony of the Mills’ death. But for some
reasons best known to the President and his cabal, the ceremony was left out.
But why are they determined to do everything to obliterate everything about
their ‘man’ from human memory? But why and where did the former President go
wrong?
Many Ghanaians have come to such conclusion because
President John Dramani Mahama, the sole beneficiary of his former boss’ death
did not deem it expedient to accord his master the respect he deserved. After
all, he John Mahama is now the lord of all that he surveys. He has both the
cake and the knife and can slice off any portion he likes. After all, they had
used the man and when they realized he had become excess luggage and an
obstacle to their retaining power, they looked for other ways to get rid of
him. But the most pathetic aspect of the whole “chukwuchukwu” show was that the
life of the late President was never allowed to reach its natural span. Yes, by
omission or commission, they “murdered” John Evans Atta Mills.
Nobody is ever going to tell me that the former
President was never ‘murdered’. Every action and utterance of members of the
cancerous contraption, including that of President Mahama points to the fact
that they had a hand in the untimely demise of President Ata Mills. Late
President Mills did not die a natural death. They “did him in”. Every member of
the Executives of the Nefarious Destructive Cancer, from the highest papacy to
the lowest clergyman cannot escape blame in the unnatural death of the
ex-president. Some deliberately acted in certain ways in order to have alibis.
But their sins will surely find them out.
In fact, President Mills ought to have been arrested
if Ghana was to be a country where the rule of law prevails. I stated it in one
of my numerous articles touching on the health of the late president before the
unfortunate incident that Vice President under George Bush Junior’s administration
was questioned when he accidentally shot a colleague during a hunting
expedition. The findings were made public. Our President, John Mahama, sole
beneficiary of Mills death has been prevaricating on different accounts
relating to the death of his former boss. Yes, President John Dramani Mahama
has lied to Ghanaians and the international community. He is not a man of
integrity.
His so-called shedding of tears on the day he was
sworn in could be described as crocodile tears. Is he not the same person who
said it was the death of former President Mills that opened a door of
opportunity for him to become President? How could tears shed by this
opportunist be genuine? I am convinced beyond all reasonable doubts that the
President is not innocent of the untimely demise of former President Mills.
On two different occasions, the President gave two
different versions about the death of his predecessor. On the day he acted
Brutus and gained the ultimate, the day he shed crocodile tears, he told the
nation and the international community that he had met the late President on
the morning of his untimely demise. The late President sent him and the Chief
of Staff on an errand at the International Conference Centre and that on their
return from the assignment, both the Chief of Staff and he (President John
Mahama) had reported back to the late President of the successful completion of
the assignment.
Nobody asked him to tell that to the nation. He on
his own volition did that. According to the sole beneficiary of Mills death,
both the new President and the Chief of Staff went back to their respectful
offices. It was from his office that he was called by the Chief of Staff and
informed that the late President’s condition had turned worst. He gave the time
of death as 2.15pm.
But in an interview with Shaka Sasli of VOA, the
President sang a new tune. He said he noticed that the President did not come
to his office on the day before he died. He found a note asking him to
represent him and the Chief of Staff to represent him at a function holding at
the International Conference Centre the following day.
Haruna Iddrissu too would not be undone in giving
his own version of how the former President died. He said President John
Mahama, the Chief of Staff, Henry Martey Newman and his humble self were
detailed by the late President to represent him at a function holding at the
Arts Centre. According to him they left the venue of the programme at 2.45pm,
long after the time given by President John Mahama as time of death of the late
President.
Dr Kwabena Adjei, Chairman of the Nefarious
Destructive Cancer had stated emphatically that the late President had died in
the morning of that Tuesday, contrary to what the beneficiary of the former
President’s death had told the nation and the international community.
The contradictions in various accounts by the
Principal actors are too many for our comfort. Why did President Mahama refuse
to tell us that Haruna Iddrissu was part of the delegation which represented
the late President at the function? And why did he change his statement about
reporting back to the President after they had completed the assignment? What
did he hope to gain by this blatant lie? What about the time of death? John
Mahama told us his former boss died at 2.30pm. But Haruna Iddrissu said he, the
Chief of Staff and the current President had left the venue of the assignment
after 3.30pm. How do we reconcile these different versions as to time of death?
Haruna Iddrissu has told us that the assignment had
taken place at the Arts Council. But President John Mahama says the venue was
the International Conference Centre. Who is telling the truth and who is the
liar?
You see the inconsistencies in various accounts
about the untimely demise of the late President. If it were to be any other
country but NDC Ghana, President John Mahama would have found himself in the
interrogation room of the Homicide squad of the Police.
Out of the blues, Brigadier General Paul K. Kpornyo,
Commander of the 37 Military Hospital attempts to exculpate the presidency from
blame just as the head of EOCO did at the peak of the controversy generated by
the “chukwuchukwu” award of gargantuan GHC58 million to Wayome by the trio of
Betty Mould Iddrissu, Kwabena Dufuor and Barton Oduro. Instead of helping the President
to clear its image, it rather dragged its name into the mud.
What does the Commandant do? Nearly two months after
the untimely demise of President Mills, the man concocts a story that the late
President was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance but not in a 4x 4 as was
being speculated and that there was communication between the Castle and the 37
Military Hospital before the late President was rushed there.
Then came the mother of all revelations. And what
was it? That the late President was accompanied by two pediatricians in the
ambulance to the 37 Military Hospital! Hey, wait a minute! What am I hearing?
Are my ears deceiving me? According to
Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, the late President was receiving treatment for cancer,
and the late President said he was suffering from sinus infection. And you send
not one but two “children doctors” to treat him! For which ailment? In this twentieth century? Not even in Don
Diego de Azambuja’s time would such a drama have been enacted.
And this is the very reason while this case deserves
public investigation. At best, the culprits including President John Dramani
Mahama could be charged with manslaughter. The Homicide division of the Ghana
Police should be invited to look into the case. The ECOWAS, The OAU and the UNO
must be involved to fish out perpetrators of this heinous crime against God and
humanity.
What was the motive in bringing in two
paediatricians to treat the late President knowing very well that the former
President was an adult, not a child? The two medical doctors should be arrested
for accepting to do a job for which they are not qualified. Maybe, maybe, they
prescribed some drugs which might have exacerbated the illness, leading to the
untimely demise of the late president.
I have said it before and will repeat it today.
President John Dramani Mahama stands accused in the untimely demise of his
predecessor. He has a case to answer because he has not been candid and
consistent in his statements about the death of his former boss. He has concealed
certain vital information which could have helped to unravel the mystery
surrounding the untimely demise of the former President. In short, the
President has lied to the nation and the international community.
The NDC realized rather very late that the late
President was excess baggage and so wanted a way to ‘do him in’. And so making
him jog/trot at the airport before his departure to the United States and
repeating same on his arrival was part of the agenda to “do him in”. When that failed, they brought in the two
paediatricians to administer “children’s medicine” on him. That exacerbated the
illness which subsequently resulted in the untimely demise of the late
President. That’s the only logical conclusion one could draw from the presence
of the two paediatricians at the bedside of the late President.
The need for an autopsy into the mysterious death of
the former President has become more relevant with the recent revelation by the
Commandant of the 37 Military Hospital. After all, were they not the people who
sore against Heaven and earth that the late President was as fit as a fiddle?
And those to appear before the international probe must include the President
John Dramani Mahama, all those on duty at the Castle during the last four days
of President Mills’ life on earth. All those at the 37 Military Hospital on the
day they late President was rushed to the 37 Military Hospital including the
Commandant should be thoroughly be investigated. Others must include Iddrissu
Haruna, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, and Dr Kwabena Adjei. The dispatch book of the
so-called Ambulance which took the late President to the Hospital should also
be made available to the probe.
Anita de Souza must also be made to appear before
the probe. She said the death of the late President at the time it happened was
divine intervention for if it had happened at a different time it would have
dimmed the chances of the NDC. Such an utterance depicts criminality on her
part.
Let President John Dramani Mahama not think he can
hide under the cloak of executive fiat to deny the masses an investigation into
the mysterious and untimely demise of his predecessor. How long he can
forestall a public investigation into the death of his predecessor is a matter
of time. Time is running out for him. Already, rumours abound that he,
President Mahama had buried a live cow at the Castle at the time the late
President was receiving treatment in the United States. The earlier he comes
out to debunk such an allegation at a public probe, the better it would be better
for him.
President John Dramani Mahama has through divine
intervention which saw the demise of his predecessor and opened a door of
opportunity for him to become President has the opportunity to portray himself
as a man of integrity by ordering a probe into the death of his former boss.
But he can like a drowning man struggle against all odds and tides by denying
the people their quest for a public probe into the death of his predecessor
because he is the President.
But judgement day awaits him and all those who might
have contributed in one way or the other to the untimely demise of our late
President. The only thing that can save the presidency and give it a semblance
of respect is for President Mahama to listen to the voice of reason by acceding
to the demands of the masses.
The Presidency must not think that it can use the
power of incumbency to prevent what the masses are asking from happening. After
all, the President, together with the NDC as well as the Electoral Commission
is hell-bent on forcing the illegal creation of 45 new Constituencies on
Ghanaians. Ghanaians are unanimous in their determination to bring perpetrators
of such a “palace coup” to justice.
As it was in the beginning, so shall it be at the
end. The President has a good opportunity of writing his name in gold by
ordering a probe into the death of his predecessor. And if John Mahama loved his predecessor,
what better way to exhibit such love by ordering an immediate investigation
into the sudden death of the man. Such a
probe will clear all doubts in the minds of people. Failure to do so will be an
indication that the President and his people have something nasty things in
their cup boards.
They either
do it now or wait for the propitious moment when the masses will march them all
to the judgement seat. Yes, that’s exactly what will happen after the Great
Tsunami has swept them off from power in December, 2012. Who then would save
them?
