Brother of late President, John Evans Atta-Mills, and a prominent figure in Ghanaian politics, Samuel Atta-Mills, has questioned President Akufo-Addo over his silence on the autopsy report of Joseph Boakye Danquah Adu, popularly known as JB Danquah.
This follows a call by the former deputy General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Samuel Koku Anyidoho, backed by President Akufo-Addo, for the autopsy report of former President John Evans Atta-Mills to be made public.
Mr Anyidoho together with some kinsmen of the late President paid a courtesy call on President Akufo-Addo and appealed to him to ensure that Prof Mills’ autopsy report is made public. According to the delegation that called on the President, there has not been an autopsy report presented to the family even after eleven years of his demise.
Addressing President Akufo-Addo, Nana Enyimfua III who initiated the appeal said “Our biggest problem as a family is that ever since I was enstooled as queenmother, I have not seen any autopsy report in the family. That is the biggest problem I have with the family because if someone asks me what killed him I won’t know if the doctor said he broke his arm or his neck or drunk something.”
“So we plead with you and the government that the family needs the autopsy report so that in future when I am no more queen mother posterity will learn from it because no child from the family knows what killed the late former president not to talk about me the queen mother in the family. So I plead with you on behalf of the family, before you leave office let us get the autopsy report.”
Mr Anyidoho made a similar call which was supported by President Akufo-Addo. This has attracted a reaction from Mr Samuel Atta-Mills, who has since been questioning the rationale for demanding his brother’s autopsy report.
In the wake of the controversy, Mr Atta-Mills has asked President Akufo-Addo to also be concerned about the autopsy report of JB Danquah, a Ghanaian chartered accountant and politician who was murdered in his home in 2016.
He was a member of the Parliament of Ghana for the Abuakwa North on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party between 2005 and 2009, and once more from 2013 until his death.
He was killed on February 9, 2016, at age 50, at his Shiashi Legon Home. Although the suspect in the murder has been apprehended, there has not been any public mention of an autopsy report of JB Danquah.
It is in view of this that Mr Samuel Atta-Mills is asking the President to also be concerned about Mr JB Danquah’s autopsy report as he is concerned with that of late President JEA Mills.
“Wasn’t JB Danquah a sitting Member of Parliament. Has his autopsy report been published?” Mr Atta-Mills questioned.
He also also asked the President and Mr Anyidoho to allow his brother rest in peace.