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He was an academic plugged from the comfort of lecture hall and thruste on the people of Ghana by former president Rawlings through the �swedru declaration�. His new status at the helm of NDC scheme of things resulted in some top guns of the party actually breaking away to form their own party, as a result of dissatisfaction with that decision by the founder of the to make Atta- Mills the flagbearer.He was supported by the Rawlingses through thick-and- thin, and through successive electoral defeats, until lady luck smiled on the good old professor in the 2008 elections. His three and half years in office have been described in various ways by various people. However, he and his followers rather described his tenure as �UNPRECEDENTED�. On the afternoon of Tuesday, 26th July 2012, the nation�s heart was broken when the news of the prof�s death hit the news wires. Some of us didn�t believe it at first, and we were justified not to believe it because we had never been given any word about the illness. In the end, official release from the presidency confirmed the news and the reality dawn on us. A week of national mourning was declared and the whole nation has been observing this directive. However, the confusion surrounding his death, as regards a place of burial and the disagreement between the man�s family at his home-town of ekumfi-otuam(C/R) and his brothers/sisters at cape coast. There is a statement out there that there is going to be a nation-wide minute silence, tomorrow, in memory of the late president Atta-Mills at exactly 14:30hrs(2:30pm),which happens to be the exact time he passed away. Consequently, I would have wished the John Mahama-led administration had cut- out the confusion they initially created between the brothers/sisters of the late president Atta-Mills and his actual family, and simply abide by the tenets of laid- down customary procedure and send the late prof to his ancestral home-town of ekumfi-otuam(C/R) for burial. It has emerged that on the day president Atta-Mills passed away, he had a pain in the neck and it was his sister who had gone to visit him at the castle, that sent one of their cousins to go and buy a neck-brace for him (president mills) to wear in order to ease his pain (oman-fm morning show, 307/12) Meanwhile, anytime the late President Atta-Mills was taken abroad for medical treatment, a plane-load of these criminal greedy imbeciles accompanied him just so they could take their hefty per-diem and sleep with prostitutes in their hotel rooms. which of these greedy criminals would have forced his father to carry on with a stressful duty of an executive president, if the father was in the state of health the late president Atta-Mills was in?Indeed,these people are damn-bloody murderers who must be jailed and made to serve their jail term in Guantanamo- bay(Cuba),together with al-Qaeda terrorists!!! Final resting place for our former presidents In our nation�s history, all democratically elected past presidents of have been buried in their ancestral home-towns: 1. Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah buried at his home-town of Nkroful (W/R) but later moved into a mausoleum in Accra on the account of being Ghana�s founding president. 2. William Akufo-Addo is buried at his home-town of Akropong (E/R) 3. Professor Kofi Abrefa Busia is buried at his home-town of Wenchie (B/A), 4. Dr Hilla Liman is buried at his home-town of Gwolu (U/W) However, observing such a simple laid-down tradition/convention in close collaboration with president Atta-Mills� family, President John Mahama rather chose to make three false starts: 1. Directive for the burial place of President Atta-Mills within the premises of jubilee house has turned out to be a wrong move. 2. His meeting with President Atta-Mills' brothers/sisters at cape coast instead of the true family members at his hometown of ekumfi-otuam. 3. Coming out with funeral arrangements before the one week customary rights after a person's demise is against our Ghanaian custom. Now, if a whole president with all the gargantuan advisers around him doesn't know how a simple funeral is organized under our Ghanaian custom, then how dare he nature any ambition to seek our mandate to be the chief executive officer our dear nation and the commander-in-chief of our armed forces? Initially, the late President going to be buried at the jubilee house, then it shifted to the military cemetery(osu),then cape coast, then ekumfi-otuam(C/R) and the latest information has it that he might be buried near the fountain at the fore- court of parliament house. If the late president Atta-Mills, due to his personal reasons, never lived in the jubilee house for even the 4yrs of his first term of office, then what is the essence of burying him at this very same vicinity for eternity, since this will be going against his wish? The need for a coroner�s inquest ‎In any civilized society, when important people are involved in accident or suddenly taken ill and are rushed to medical facilities, the hospital authorities/ doctors handling the situation will always come out with public briefings on when the person was rushed in, the condition he/she was in at the time of arrival and what was and being done to stabilize the situation and the progress or otherwise made.All these details have so far eluded Ghanaians while astronomic amounts of cash are being splashed around on funeral arrangements. Tobobi Kwakye, at the press briefing by the funeral committee said there was no need for a corona�s inquest into the actual cause of death of president Atta- Mills because, according to him, �president Atta-Mills died in a hospital�. Now, according to medical practice, which is my professional field, when a person dies within 24-hours of arrival at a health facility, a corona�s inquest is mandatory. But from the snippets of unprecedentedly disjointed accounts we have received on the last moments of president Atta-Mills� hours on earth, it is not even certain if he arrived at the37-military hospital alive. And my reasons are: 1. "President Atta-Mills knew he was going and therefore wanted to quit his job" � T.B. Joshua 2. "President Mills wanted to resign but i encouraged him to stay on by reading the book of job to him" - Nunoo-Mmensah 3. "The president was extremely fit and was actually at his desk busily working when he was taken ill" - Kwesi Pratt 4. "I have energy for the past, future and the present" - the late president Atta- Mills 5. we have been made to believe that the exact time of the president�s demise was 2:15pm but his sister who was with him on the morning of that fateful day said on Oman-FM that their brother, Cadman Mills, actually called her at exactly 13hrs(1pm) and told her about the death of their brother. Now, when a person gets cancer, it gets to a point where the disease is said to have metastasized and at this stage, the cancerous cells would have spread to all the vital organs of the body including heart, brain, lungs etc. In this situation, the person can suffer a sudden cardiac arrest and drop dead. Effectively, it is not the cancer that causes the death of the victim but rather the damage it causes to the body's anatomy and physiology. In the light of this, these NDC bigots who are claiming the late president Atta-Mills was as fit as fiddle and therefore couldn't have died from any long-term sickness as cancer, must get themselves educated and spare us the crass cacophony!!! Indeed, there are more questions begging for answers and we shall surely demand these answers and if doctors of the late president Atta-Mills really told him he had "energy for the past, present and the future" as he told the whole nation on his return from the last �routine medical check� abroad, then these doctors must be charged for voluntary manslaughter. MAY THE SOUL OF THE GOOD PROFESSOR REST IN ETERNAL PEACE!! E-mail: [email protected]