President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has acknowledged the request made by the family of the late President John Evans Atta Mills for his autopsy report.
He described the request as a ‘legitimate’ one” and stated that he would have to find out how to proceed on that.
During a meeting at Jubilee House, the family appealed for the report. The President said that if the family wants to have the autopsy report of someone who died in those circumstances, it is a legitimate demand.
It was informed to the President in the presence of Mills’ family that only the late President’s brother, Samuel Atta Mills, claims to have the autopsy report.
President Akufo-Addo interjected that the autopsy report should be part of official documentation and public records.
The appeal for the autopsy report was made by Nana Enyimfua III, representing the family, during a visit to the president in Accra on Saturday.
Nana Enyimfua III expressed concern over the unknown cause of his death and emphasised the importance of obtaining the report for closure and historical record.
Addressing President Akufo-Addo, Nana Enyimfua III said “Our biggest problem as a family is that ever since I was enstooled as queenmother, I have not seen any autopsy report in the family. That is the biggest problem I have with the family because if someone asks me what killed him I won’t know if the doctor said he broke his arm or his neck or drunk something.”
“So we plead with you and the government that the family needs the autopsy so that in future when I am no more queen mother posterity will learn from it because no child from the family knows what killed the late former president not to talk about me the queen mother in the family. So I plead with you on behalf of the family, before you leave office let us get the report.”
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