President John Mahama has strongly advocated a Professor Mills-inspired conviction that, decency still has a place in Ghana’s politics.
He made this comment in reference to the harsh, scornful and cynical critique of Professor Mills during his incomplete tenure as president.
But news of his death triggered a torrent of kind words from a wide spectrum of the Ghana society.
President Mahama says this turnabout in language forced the country to look into ourselves and gain a sudden insight into the late Mills’ unassuming humility.
The President distilled a lesson from this trend of events and announced that using decent language is not incompatible with politics. In other words, “decency still has a place in our politics,” Mahama said.
He counseled the youth to draw inspiration from Ghana’s father for all and ‘asomdweehene’ - man of peace.
He also called on Ghanaians to rededicate themselves to the values of a man he called a “a great crusader of social justice, politics of tolerance and inclusion”.
For the president, it was an emotionally breakdown hearing the news of the president’s death on the 24 day of July 2012.
A day that has been marked at the Asomdwee park- president Mills’ final resting place. The former president Jerry John Rawlings joined different shades of Ghanaians – politicians, clergymen and the ordinary man - to witness the laying of wreaths at the late president’s burial site.
President Mahama laid the first for the executive, while Rt. Honorable Doe Adjaho and Chief Justice Georgina Wood laid one each for the legislature and judiciary respectively.
Naadu Mills laid one for her departed husband.
