• On Sunday, 24th July 2022, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, commissioned the rehabilitated Asomdwoe Park, the final resting place of the 3rd President of the 4th Republic, the late Prof. John Evans Fiifi Atta-Mills.
Professor John Evans Atta Mills previously served as Vice-President from 1997 to 2001 under President Jerry Rawlings, and he stood unsuccessfully in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections as the candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He is the first sitting Ghanaian head of state to die in office and was subsequently laid to rest at the Asomdwee Park.
John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills was a Ghanaian politician and legal scholar who served as President of Ghana from January 2009 to July 24, 2012.
On Sunday, 24th July 2022, the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, commissioned the rehabilitated Asomdwoe Park, the final resting place of the 3rd President of the 4th Republic, the late Prof. John Evans Fiifi Atta-Mills.
Speaking at the ceremony, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo noted that the commissioning of an infrastructural project by the Government should be a joyous occasion, and should elicit the display of pomp and pageantry in recognition of the feat achieved.
“But today’s event is not one of those normal occasions. Exactly ten years ago, a truly tragic incident occurred, one we had never witnessed, and hope will never reoccur in our history, certainly not in our lifetime – the death of a sitting President in office, the death of the 3rd President of the 4th Republic, Prof. John Evans Atta-Mills.
President Akufo-Addo in his speech noted that he was a contemporary of the late President at the University of Ghana and were members of the same hall that's the gentlemen's hall, Legon Hall to be precise, and the pair also played in the same University football team.
But as fate would have, they ended up belonging to two leading different political organizations. The president also made mentioned that they both contested the 2008 presidential elections. I won the first round and he won the second round, the round that really mattered Nana Addo stated. I was looking forward to the third round in 2012, when the Lord Almighty called him home on 24th July 2012,” he noted.
The President stated that, after becoming President, he became aware of the sad state of Asomdwee Park, and in 2020, he received a request from Koku Anyidoho, the energetic Communications Director of the late President, who is also the CEO of the Atta Mills Institute, for Government's assistance to rehabilitate the Asomdwee Park.
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