Kwabena Yeboah cries for Atta Mills

Renowned football

commentator and owner of the Africa Sports newspaper, Kwabena Yeboah, has

revealed his devastation and inconsolable mood at the death of President John

Atta Mills.

Mr. Yeboah says the

just departed president was a close pal and a man he has known for ages, even

once sharing a bathroom with.

“I have always held

the belief that death is inevitable and that sooner or later, everybody will

die and that our continued existence is a just a postponement of the

inevitability of death.

“So when someone dies,

I normally don’t cry but yesterday I was devastated. I couldn’t take it, I

parked my car by the road side when I heard the news and cried so much,”

Kwabena Yeboah said as he burst into wild tears on live radio Wednesday

morning.

Kwabena Yeboah whose

father-in-law Harry Sawyer worked with Atta Mills, got to know the former

President through his father-in-law and he they shared a good rapport.

“I’ve known him for

over two decades and he always called me ‘Kotoko man’ and I also referred to

him as ‘Hearts man.’. He was an epitome of the saying ‘good name is better than

riches.’ He transcends all political affiliations,” Kwabena Yeboah said.

He continued: “Even if

you are a political opponent, you are very reluctant to criticize the man. I

don’t believe that people are shedding crocodile tears. People genuinely love

the man. He was extraordinary. This was a president who was most approachable,

very humble and honest.”

Kwabena Yeboah has no

doubt at all that if a human being appreciated democracy and it’s tenets in

every sphere of life, then one could not bypass the departed John Evans Atta

Mills. He recounted: “We all know he preferred Abedi Pele for the CAF position

instead of Kwesi Nyantakyi. And in Africa where presidents were totally in

control, I knew if it was other countries, there was no way he would back off.

But when the GFA met him and explained to him why they wanted Nyantakyi, he

just apologized and gave them his support. That is how humble and democratic the

man has always been.”

That’s a not all, the

celebrated Mr. Yeboah, a veteran of the Ghanaian sports industry also recalls

another instance from 1991 when Atta Mills was Chairman of the Management

Committee of the Black Stars.

Kwabena Yeboah said: “I remember when Burkhard Ziese took over and the Black Stars

were about to play Nigeria in the qualifiers to Senegal ’92. Eddie Ansah was

then playing in Nigeria and as we saw the coach wanted to use him, we were all

afraid that Eddie Ansah was going to play hanky-panky with us. But Atta Mills

told us at the camp in Winneba: ‘this is a new coach with his new strategies; let’s

leave him to do

his job.’ That’s how democratic he was.”