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A PRESIDENT DIES IN OFFICE, drama unfolds, what next?



That's not to say prior to President Mills' passing there was no drama in Ghana. The man himself had come out en route to the US for check up to declare he was not dead following rumours. There was also the saga of the 51 million cedi payment to Alfred Woyome. Of course the galloping gallopers and Isotofon judgement debts or whatever payments they were. The day of Mill’s death also saw former AG and education minister Betty Mould Iddrisu spectacular appearance before the Public Accounts Committee ending in exchanges with the PAC chairman Albert Kan Dapaa as tempers were rising.as for the State Broadcaster's coverage the least said the better.
Weeks after international media had long moved on with Ghana’s new president and veep, well over here everything else came to a standstill unless related, because we were mourning Prof Mills- that's not to say something is wrong with that, but for how long?. Soon after the news of the death had been digested , more wahala came up. Where to bury the late president? –whether flagstaff house, Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park, state house or  his hometown Otuam – well Asomdwee park near the Osu Castle made it. Next debate was on what killed the Old Prof and even who? The matter about the president’s health status popped up again eventually. But when this matter came up in the past government persons including Prez Mills himself denied it. So were Ghanaians told the truth bat any point in time? Will we ever get to know what really happened?
Former Prez. Rawlings' comments that the old Prof could have lived longer upon wiser action drew all sorts of adjectives, such as irresponsible, distasteful, harsh, absurd- particularly described by the family of the late president as uncouth, derogatory and uncensored insults. Speak no evil of the dead, but can a dead man's works be subject to criticism? 
Various kinds and  patterned funeral cloths to mourn him popped out on the market but not without drama: “se asa” vs “aboa bi beka woaa na efri wontoma mu” and the likes emerged telling their own stories about the death.

This is how we do things in Ghana- dramatize dramatically-in effect dragging everyday activity. I wonder what it would have been like if any of the ensuing events or drama hadn't occurred.
Hey after all, the smooth transition to the Mahama government reinforced Ghana as the pinnacle of Africa’s democracy. As for Africans and democracy I'll just say Paul a wanba ntem... 
Hopefully things should begin to gather momentum even the called off strikes for the period - lol. 
xoxo

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