{"id":1157585,"date":"2022-07-24T18:04:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/24\/claims-atta-mills-tomb-has-been-desecrated-unfortunate\/"},"modified":"2022-07-24T18:04:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T18:04:48","slug":"claims-atta-mills-tomb-has-been-desecrated-unfortunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/24\/claims-atta-mills-tomb-has-been-desecrated-unfortunate\/","title":{"rendered":"Claims Atta Mills&#8217; tomb has been desecrated unfortunate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"424\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-286.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Akufo-Addo speaking at late Atta-Mill' memorial\"\/><\/div>\n<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has rejected accusations that the tomb of former President John Atta Mills has been tampered with.<\/p>\n<p>The President said such claims are unfortunate and should be ignored.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/4D860A44-7A76-4C21-BDF3-742013FEB1A9-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139000\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>He stressed that the legacy of the former president will not be forgotten.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler\">\n<p>\nhttps:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=-ofQvP0kDhM%3Ffeature%3Doembed\n<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThere have been unfortunate accusations levelled by some persons against Government about the supposed desecration of the tomb of the late President in the process of rehabilitating the Park.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/FD656225-7A72-4C62-9331-A73EF52A137F-1024x672.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139001\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cNothing could be farther from the truth, and it is good to note that these false, malicious statements have been firmly dispelled and debunked by the Coastal Development Authority, through the agency of its CEO, Mr. Jerry Ahmed Schaib, in a public statement under his hand,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/94FEEDBA-37B9-4793-810E-963F519CBF7C-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139002\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo made the call when he commissioned the Rehabilitated Asomdwee Park and the 10th Anniversary of the death of President Atta Mills on Sunday, July 24.<\/p>\n<p>Brother of former President, has alleged that the government has allowed the Atta Mills Institute to tamper with the grave of the late statesman.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/B4410D2B-CAA7-46A8-AD5C-4828C8808EE7-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139003\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>According to brother of the former President, Samuel Atta Mills, the current arrangement goes against customs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not proper to allow the NGO to make changes to the grave without recourse to the family,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/87479552-3160-47F7-8803-7720E607DCE8-1024x660.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139004\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cApparently a group calling itself Atta Mills Institute that the family does not recognize and Coastal Development Authority have gone to break this grave of President Evans Atta Mills\u2026why would you go and touch somebody\u2019s grave without informing the family?\u2026 Who has the body now? That is the question I want to ask Ghanaians,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>The furious brother of the former President thus called on government to immediately stop the conduct of Koku Anyidoho because he is desecrating the resting place of the former President.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D7AC9876-5C36-40AB-845C-A5278930A07F-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139005\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis is an insult to the family, this is an insult to we the Akans, this is an insult to the nation. The government allows an NGO and Coastal Development Authority to run Asomdwe Park. Why don\u2019t we send another NGO to go and run Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum\u2026the government has to provide the body of President John Evans Atta Mills, we want to find out where the body is\u2026who in this government is authorising this nonsense?\u201d he questioned.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/D0E8116E-D9F2-4ECB-B904-082CFA5DA37B-1024x672.jpeg\" alt=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-10032139007\" title=\"Claims Atta Mills' tomb has been desecrated\u00a0unfortunate\u00a0- Akufo-Addo\u00a0\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>However, the Coastal Development Authority denied the allegations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"654\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/image-286.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2141369\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"e8ywdIiDWLA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e8ywdIiDWLA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Akufo-Addo has rejected accusations that the tomb of former President John Atta Mills has been tampered with. The President said such claims are unfortunate and should be ignored. He stressed that the legacy of the former president will not be forgotten. https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=-ofQvP0kDhM%3Ffeature%3Doembed \u201cThere have been unfortunate accusations levelled by some persons against Government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1157588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[4075,276,21290,7626,20992,12436],"class_list":["post-1157585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-atta","tag-claims","tag-desecrated","tag-mills","tag-tomb","tag-unfortunate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}