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I have decided to come out in defence of His Excellency the President of the Republic of Ghana, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, on the publication by the Daily Searchlight newspaper on Monday December 7, 2009 that �in ten months of office, Prof Mill is building a big mansion at Atabaadze Junction. I have been associated with the Atta Mills family since 2000 when he was the Vice President and know much about Mr. J. H. A Mills Farms, owned by the father of Prof Mills at Atabaadze Junction, which he bequeathed to his children after his death. The land in question was initially 64 acres when it was leased to Mr. J.E.A Mills Senior, who lived at Komenda Kisi and was lecturing at Komenda Training College. The lease period was 40 years and elapsed in the year 2000. It was at this time that Prof. Mills sent some of us to talk to Nana Tandoh, the present chief of Essaman expressing his interest in the land since the lease had elapsed. When the chief of Essaman agreed to sell the land to the Atta Mills family, he (Nana Tandoh) went to the then vice President Mills and collected first amount of 24million old cedis and went on to collect another six million old cedis as part payment. It was after the year 2001 when Mrs. Emma Afful, the elder sister of President Mills, decided that before the remaining balance of money is paid, the Atta Mills brothers and sisters will have to engage a surveyor for them to know the 64-acre land at Atabaadze. But it was later on detected that the Nsona Royal family members of Atabaadze had sold almost 33.5 acres of the land, leaving 31.4 acres. I quite remember that during the 2002 bye-elections at Gomoa East, Prof. Mills decided to take a day off the campaign so that he could visit the farm. We went there with his bodyguards and his sister, Efua Mbirwaa, who was doing some accounts with the brother on an amount of 32million old cedis that was also paid to the Nsona Royal Family when they requested for the money for the funeral of their Ebusuapanyin Master Tandoh. At the farmyard, I saw that Prof. Mills had started a piggery farm, planted a lot of pawpaw and mango seedlings. During the 2008 electioneering campaign, as usual, then candidate Mills anytime he came to the Central Region, visited the farms on the land in question with his security men who assisted in weeding around the house. It was during the 2008 campaign that I realized that Prof. Mills� brothers and sisters were all investing in the farm, demolishing one side of the house on the land, which has become inhabitable and were putting up a new structure like a countryside lodge. I am also aware that a nephew of Prof. Mills paid 60 million old cedis to Nana Tandoh and his elders with the remaining amount of 35million old cedis being paid by Prof Mills� younger brother, Sammy Atta Mills who was then domiciled in the United States of America. I would wish that Nana Tandoh would come out to clear the air on such malicious allegations of a big mansion being put up by President Mills for it would do him good. I know who is behind the propaganda to malign the President. The said farm also houses the constituency office of the NDC in the Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abirem (KEEA). Who cares to know? Well if Ghanaians want to k now, they should go Elmina Atabaadze Junction at Essaman and verify. The President�s nephew at the farm is not Theophillus Mills but rather Theophillus Quaye. I am appealing to the one behind the publication not to malign President Mills or his brothers and sisters just because his wife�s application for school feeing programme has been rejected on the grounds that she does not quality to be a cateress. �Mini Sane Ne� Ben Allotey Jacobs: Central Regional NDC Propaganda Secretary.