Ho observes minute’s silence in memory of President Mills

Heads and staff of decentralized institutions, security services and some individuals on Tuesday converged at the Volta Regional Co-ordinating Council to observe a minute silence in memory of the late President John Evans Atta Mills at exactly 14:15 hours.

At exactly 14:15 hours, personnel of the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) sounded a siren as people stood in honour of the late President.

Mr. Henry Ford Kamel, Volta Regional Minister, commended the people of the region for “showing true love to the late President".

“Your high turn-out and spontaneous reaction on Monday July 30 in mourning our late President demonstrated that we truly love our late President,” he said.

Mr. Kamel said: “Though the death of the late President hit the nation like a thunderbolt, government is taking consolation in the way the populace rose to mourn him. This tells us that the late President led a good life worthy of emulation. We must let our conducts portray that we are one and that politics is just a way of expressing divergent opinions”.

Official Government sources said President Mills died at exactly 1415 hours on Tuesday, July 24, 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital when he took ill earlier that day.

On Monday, July 30, hundreds of people in the Ho Municipal Area marched through the principal streets of Ho and gathered at the Ho Sports Stadium for a rally to mourn the late President.

The six-hour event united people of different political parties and chiefs in mourning, prominent were political parties representatives, the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Ho Market Women Association, and the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) all of whom paid tributes to the memory of late President Mills.**