In the case of the late President John Mills, he died at the 37 Military Hospital in the hands of competent doctors, Kwakye reminded, insisting the doctors are duty bound to explain the circumstances.
Ten days after his death it is still not clear the actual cause of death, even though international news reports, BBC, CNN and Aljazeera claimed the president died of throat cancer.
The Information has been quick with a denial saying President John Mills did not die of cancer, but everybody try different ways to tell it be the real issues is not the throat cancer.
An investigation into the cause of death of late President John Mills describing it as a private matter only for the family.
The death of the ex-Ghana leader was not a criminal issue, only the family has the right to ask for mortal remains of the dead ex-president to be examined.
Many critics insisting Ghanaian have a right to know the cause of death of their late president and is said that he fall down in his office room.
Many different and conflicting accounts of the death of the president makes it all the more necessary for a coroner’s report.
As a matter of urgency, order an investigation into the cause death of his predecessor.
Nana Bediatuo described as flawed comments by the Chairman of the Funeral Committee that coroner’s reports are only necessary if a person dies at home and later brought to the hospital.
He stated emphatically that if a person dies within 24 hours after being brought to the hospital a coroner’s report is needed.
On whether the death of late president John Mills was criminal or not, it is only an investigation which will tell. It doesn’t lie in the mouth of the Information Minister to conclude the death was not criminal,.
Even though it was evident that former US President John F Kennedy was shot and killed in the open, the US government found it necessary to conduct an investigation to find the remote and immediate cause of death.
Unequivocal Ghanaians must know the cause of death of their president before he is buried on August 10. A member of the Funeral Planning Committee Nana Ato Dadzie, said committee has no mandate to discuss or call for an investigation into the death of the late president.
He said it is a non-issue for the committee, insisting anybody interested in pursuing the matter can take it up at the appropriate platform.
For now though, the committee has a very “pressing matter to present our best foot forward” in the burial of the late president, he added.
He died on 24 July 2012 at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra, three days after his 68th birthday.
Though the cause of death was not immediately released, he had been suffering from throat cancer and had recently been to the US for medical reasons. Announcing his death, his office noted that he died hours after being taken ill, but a presidential aide said that he had complained of pains the day prior to his death. According to the BBC, his voice had degenerated in the previous few months. Former minister Elizabeth Ohene said that as a result of previous false reports of his death, she had not believed initial claims of his actual death.
"For the past three or four years there's been news he's been unwell and rumours of his death — twice — and he appeared with grim humour to say they were exaggerated, insisting he was well." His vice president John Dramani Mahama was sworn in at about 18:00 GMT on the same day. In accordance with Ghana's constitution, Mahama's tenure will expire at the same time Mills' was due to end, by the end of the year just prior to an election in which he was due to run Mahama said upon being inaugurated in parliament:
This is the saddest day in our nation's history. Tears have engulfed our nation and we are deeply saddened and distraught. I never imagined that one day that it would place our nation in such a difficult circumstance. I'm personally devastated, I've lost a father, I've lost a friend, I've lost a mentor and a senior comrade. Ghana is united in grief at this time for our departed president.
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