In a blasphemous perfidy, some nameless people in the leadership of the National Democratic congress (NDC) have forged a letter in the name of the late President John Evans Atta Mills, which they are circulating in the media.
The letter which first appeared in the Daily Graphic of Saturday August 11, is titled ‘Everlasting Message’.
Indications that the letter is a forgery begin from the fact that it is undated and claim that the writer is already dead! The NDC would have to explain to Ghanaians how a dead man came to author and sign a letter! The opening paragraph states, “I came to serve; I have finished my time here on earth and have moved on to everlasting rest and celestial duties with my heavenly father.” The immediate question is; how did the dead man come to sign his own personal tribute, since he is already in heaven?
The letter then goes on melodramatically, “As you leaf through these pages of my life’s story, I pray to God that it touches your heart in many positive ways. Weep not, I am not dead. I am alive and awake in the Lord. Ghana will not die; Ghana will live to declare the works of the Lord. As I rest in perfect peace in the celestial realms with my maker, I pledge to always uphold and defend the good name of Ghana. Remember the Lord in all your ways and He will protect you. Stay well my brothers and sisters, I will always be with you. Signed (with actual signature) John Evans Atta Mills.
This letter is an obvious forgery for several reasons. First, the writer claims that he is dead, and we all know that dead men cannot author letters and sign signatures. Second, the letter is undated. Third, if the person who wrote the letter was not dead, then he knew that he was soon to die. Why would that person not seek immediate medical attention, instead of the melodrama in the letter? Fourth, anybody in a serious and senior management position, such as a President, if he were alive, lucid and able to pen these words in the full knowledge that he is about to die, should responsibly have handed over power, instead of just penning words pretending to be in heaven!
Fifth, the author of the letter, if he was alive when he wrote those words, by not indicating that he is alive but pretending to be dead, is lying to his future readers, a deliberate misdemeanor that Mills, if he is the godly individual his friends claim he is, would not engage in.
Ergo, the letter is forgery!.
