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Member of Parliament for North Tongu,\u00a0Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has criticised the bust erected in honour of late President\u00a0John Evans Atta Mills\u00a0at Asomdwee Park.<\/p>\n
In his view, the bust does not look like the late former president.<\/p>\n
Addressing the media, Ablakwa suggested that the monument instead of honouring the late head of state was rather dishonouring his memory.<\/p>\n
He maintained that this could have been prevented if the state had collaborated with the family of\u00a0John Evans Atta Mills\u00a0and avoided pettiness and factionalism in the lead-up to the refurbishment of Asomdwee Park.<\/p>\n
The legislator also raised concerns over the missing name of Atta Mills on the bust stressing that nothing showed it was meant for \u201cthe good old Professor Mills\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look at that statue\u2026that bust, honestly, I don\u2019t know who it depicts. It doesn\u2019t look like Professor Mills. It doesn\u2019t have his name. His family is not recognized. The is nothing about that bust that shows that it was intended to immortalize and honour the memory of the good old Professor Mills. Nothing shows.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are the things that happen when you say proceed on a factional, petty, opportunistic basis. I don\u2019t think we would have had this outcome if we all came together as Ghanaians, as one people, respecting his family and everybody was allowed to contribute.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think this would have been the outcome. That itself tells you the result of division, pettiness, of opportunism. That\u2019s what happens. I am not surprised that now\u2026you have heard the family say that they even want to take this whole memorial out of here. They want their brother\u2019s body out in a private place because they have suffered enough. They can\u2019t continue to take the pettiness any longer because here is under the auspices of the state,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo on behalf of the state commissioned the refurbished Asomdwee Park on Sunday, July 24, 2022, to mark the 10th anniversary of the passing of\u00a0John Evans Atta Mills.<\/p>\n
Prior to this, the had been a public spat between Samuel Atta Mills, brother of the late President, and\u00a0Koku Anyidoho\u00a0over some works near the tomb of the late president.<\/p>\n
Samuel Atta Mills contended that the permission of the family ought to have been sort before commencing works on the tomb.<\/p>\n
The NDC subsequently held a separate event at Asomdwee Park to also observe the 10th-anniversary celebration.<\/p>\n
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