President Akufo-Addo has stated that the Asomdwee Park is being elevated to a status befitting the final resting place of a President of the Republic of Ghana, and “not to exploit or take advantage of any so-called divisions in the political party [NDC] to which he belonged.
Adding that “those alleged divisions are not of my making, and do not in any way inure to my benefit”.
In attendance at the memorial was President Nana Akufo-Addo and Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
The government commissioned the refurbished Asomdwee Park to commemorate the 10th year of the passing of late President Atta-Mills.
In his address, President Akufo-Addo said: “Sometime after becoming President, I became aware of the sad state of Asomdwee 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 [Atta-Mills Institute], for the assistance of government to rehabilitate the place [Asomdwee Park].”
“I agreed and subsequently instructed the Coastal Development Authority (CODA) to undertake a thorough rehabilitation of the park with the close cooperation of the Atta Mills Institute,” President Akufo-Addo added.
He said it was not right that the park had been allowed to “deteriorate considerably” over the years since his [Atta-Mills] burial in 2012.
“But I am happy that it was under the Presidency of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, allegedly “his fiercest critic” that the Asomdwee Park is being elevated to a status befitting the final resting place of a President of the Republic of Ghana.
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