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A Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is calling for investigations into how the late President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills could purportedly have written a letter bearing his official seal about his demise and the fact that he was in Heaven engaged in celestial duties. John Boadu strongly believes some faceless people in the leadership of the ruling party forged the letter in the name of the late President. On page 2 of the �Tributes� booklet distributed during President Mills� final funeral rites held at the Independence Square in Accra captioned �Everlasting Message,� the late President Mills was quoted to have written, �I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and celestial duties with my heavenly Father�. The letter, which also appeared in the Daily Graphic of Saturday August 11, then goes on melodramatically, �As you leaf through these pages of my life�s story, I pray to God that it touches you in many positive ways. Weep not; for I am not dead. I am alive and awake in the Lord. Ghana will not die; Ghana will live to declare the works of the Lord. As I rest in the perfect peace in the celestial realms with my Maker, I pledge to always uphold and defend the good name of Ghana. Remember the Lord in all your ways, and He will protect you. Stay well, my brothers and sisters, for I will always be with you.� Signed (with actual signature) John Evans Atta Mills. But John Boadu, who doubts the authenticity of the letter, wants government to come clear by telling Ghanaians the exact date President Mills wrote the note since it is obvious by inference that the letter was written when he was dead. Wondering how someone who is dead could author and sign his own personal tribute, the former NPP National Youth Organiser was emphatic that it is not possible for the late President to even know he was going to heaven and thus needed to console and encourage Ghanaians through a note.