Yaw Boateng Gyan, a former national organizer for the main opposition National Democratic Congress, has urged Ghanaians to hold the NDC leadership accountable for failing to repair the late president John Evans Atta-Mills’ burial grounds while in power.
He claimed that the recent altercations between the late president’s family, the NDC, and Mr. Koku Anyidoho of the Atta Mills Institute were caused by the party’s failure to maintain the burial grounds.
He made these assertions during an interview on the Ghana Yensom morning show hosted by Kwame Obeng Sarkodie on Accra 100.5 FM.
The family claims that Prof. Mills’ grave was tampered with without their consent and that Mr. Anyidoho and the government, as represented by CODA, were responsible.
CODA and the Atta Mills Institute countered that they only made the necessary renovations to make the area suitable for the burial of Ghanaian presidents.
With just one week until the 10th anniversary of his passing, Mr. Boateng Gyan argued that this shouldn’t define the commemoration of the man who was so highly regarded.
“The blame can best be laid on the leadership of the party while in government,” he noted stressing that had the party fixed the park located at Castle Drive near the former seat of government, Osu Castle these problems of tampering with the tomb would not have arisen,” Mr Boateng Gyan said.
“The NDC was in government after the passing of the late president but failed to do the needful by renovating the park. I know Koku Anyidoho with his Atta-Mills Institute has been passionate about the way the park was left to rot after his burial hence his collaboration with the Coastal Development Agency (CODA) to have the park renovated,” he stated.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
