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Former National Youth Organizer of the Convention People�s Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh Jnr., has warned government functionaries not to compare the late President John Evans Atta Mills to Ghana�s first President, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah. Judging from the leadership role of the late President Mills, James Kwabena Bomfeh, popularly known as �Kabila�, said during a panel discussion programme on Oman FM�s National Agenda programme that the late President could not in any way wear the shoes of the late Dr. Nkrumah. According to him, it is pure �blasphemy� on the part of the members of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) to hail the late President Mills as a �Saint� and deem it fit to equate his leadership to that of the great Osagyefuo. �It is blasphemous to tag President Mills as a Saint. The second blasphemy is to attempt equating President Mills to President Nkrumah. Nowhere can you compare (Mills to Nkrumah),� Kabila pontificated. The one-time Parliamentary aspirant also called for an inquest into the death of the late President, claiming that he died under mysterious circumstances. �President Mills is not a family matter. It�s a national matter�My suspicion is that Professor Mills did not die a natural death,� he said, wondering why under his administration, his cohorts concealed his health status. �Were they lying to Ghanaians? Were they doing us a disservice as a country?� he asked. Touching on the personality of the late President, Kabila said President Mills was not �a peaceful man� What I saw about him is that he is calm and slow to anger but everybody is like that,� a reason why he revoked his campaign against him (President Mills). The demise of President Mills �made me anxious because even though I disagreed with Mills� Presidency or his leadership as President, I didn�t wish him dead,� Kabila revealed.