President Nana Akufo-Addo has commissioned the rehabilitated Asomdwe Park, where the late John Evans Atta Mills was buried.
The commissioning was one following a short ceremony on Sunday, July 24, 2022, which was attended by several sympathisers and loved ones of the late former President.
In a statement released on his Facebook page, Akufo-Addo said he decided to renovate the Asomdwe Park after it came to his notice that it was in a bad state.
“On Sunday, 24th July 2024, I 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,” the President wrote.
“Sometime after becoming President, I became aware of the sad state of Asomdwoe Park, and, in 2020, I received a request from the late President’s energetic Communications Director, Koku Anyidoho, who runs the Institute named after the President, for the assistance of Government to rehabilitate the facility. I agreed, and, subsequently, I instructed the Coastal Development Authority to undertake a thorough rehabilitation of the Park, with the close cooperation of the Institute.
“It was not right that the Park had been allowed to deteriorate considerably over the years since his burial in 2012, and I am happy that it was under the Presidency of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, allegedly his “fiercest critic”, that Asomdwoe Park has been elevated to a status befitting the final resting place of a President of the Republic of Ghana.”
Speaking at the ceremony, President Akufo-Addo noted that the commissioning of an infrastructural project by the Government should naturally be a joyous occasion, and should elicit the display of pomp and pageantry in recognition of the feat achieved.
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