Dr. Cadman Atta Mills, brother of Ghana’s late president, John Evans Atta Mills, has painted a gloomy picture of his brother’s stay at the Christiansburg Castle revealing that, he was almost left lonely.
Dr. Mills who served his brother as senior presidential advisor during his presidency said Wednesday March 29, 2017, on Starr Chat that he regretted not spending a lot of time with the former president.
Born at Tarkwa on July 21, 1944 and was educated at Achimota School and the University of Ghana, Logon, Mills died at the 37 Military Hospital on July 24, 2012.
He was laid to rest at the Asomdwee Park off the Osu castle Drive in Accra.
Shedding light on the affableness of the late president, Dr. Mills said he could have been a “better brother” and that “entrusting [late Mills’] physical and emotional well-being to others” and his younger brother was an unpardonable mistake he committed.
He said anytime he returned from his trips he would come back and meet the former president “lonely.”
“I would come back and I would realize that he was a very lonely man…extremely lonely man…Oh! My God I would go to his quarters in the castle which were not really basically fit for human being to live in. I mean my God and he will be sitting in this chair very quietly,” he told Starr Chat host Bola Ray.
He said there were times he would have to call people that he knew were the late president’s friends and “tell them that please come and visit him.”
Asked if the late president would have been alive if he was not the president, the renowned economist shied away from that conspiracy theory saying “I don’t like to go there.”
About Professor Mills
John Evans Atta Mills was a native of Ekumfi Otuam in the Central Region. He was born at Tarkwa on July 21, 1944 and was educated at Achimota School and the University of Ghana, Legon.
He earned a Ph.D. in Law at the age of 27 from the London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies after completing his doctoral thesis in the area of taxation and economic development.
He then had a long stint teaching at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana before becoming the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Mills was Vice-President from 1997 to 2001, under the administration of Jerry John Rawlings.
He won the 2008 presidential elections on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), defeating the New Patriotic Party’s candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in a run-off.
President Mills died at the 37 Military Hospital on July 24, 2012. It is however officially unknown what ailment killed him, leaving many to speculate.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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Mr editor, Mills was neither a lawyer, nor had a Ph.D in law. He is an economics professor with Ph.D in Economics.
This guy should give us a break.where was he when ex.president Rawlings spoke abt how the handlers of the the late president were treating him And that they were the people who had rush the man to his grave. His mouth was shut. He ..............
Alex it was not Dr. Cadman Mills who contested the Parliamentary seat at KEEA but one of his brothers at cape coast. Yes the guy did win the seat, he beat Nana Ato Arthur of NPP.
you broody sycophant where why didn't you come early idi-ot.
@ Dr Cadman, does it mean you don't trust the told about how your brother died? Where was his wife and yourself when his handlers forced him to jog at a time that he was seriously sick? You sold your love for your brother for nothing. You and Naa Adu allowed yourself for his handler to make ***barred word*** of you PhDs. Better ***barred word***.
Did the Dr win his seat? Can anyone help.
What does Cadman expect to gain from this interview? Your brother died of throats cancer that every Ghanaian knew of but because money you denied he died from bleeding and heart attack to score political point. Cadman must go into hiding with shame. ***barred word*** ish man.
@Klutse you have said it all, I can't add a word to it.
Now you are talking? And JDM, Koku and the other 'Sharp Teeth" babies loved him sooooo muuuuuuch!!! And where was his wife?