Commentary
Death is autocratic ruler over man; a sly friend; a selective thief, who, when strikes, picks the best amongst the rest.
We’d cry; we’d weep, but we’d hope; while he laughs. But that is death, who never contributes but chooses the best.
The Informer, newspaper is profoundly saddened by the sudden death of Ghana’s beloved President, His Excellency John Evans Kofi Atta Mills, a little after noon Tuesday, July 23, 2012. In fact, we wish that day didn’t come.
Indeed, it is clichéd that, ‘it is only the coward who dies many times before his real time. But though President Mills had never shown any trait of coward-ness, politically he died as many times as his political foes would have wished.
President Mills was affably loved by Ghanaians, who, as providence would have it had crossed his path in life; and as a president, adored by his Ghanaian subjects, Africa and the world.
One thing Ghanaians would remember their late leader for, was his peace-loving, strong-will, and sense of purpose in life, and as a leader.
President Atta Mills, in assuming office as leader, promised Ghanaians a Better Ghana, an agenda, he unfolded out like a magic wand, with massive infrastructure springing up all over Ghana, readying the nation for a long-term development.
President Mills had never sat down since his inauguration on January 7, 2009, as he held the official duty like the proverbial bull, by its horn.
Even when the rumours of him dying all those several times contaminated town, he would just appear at public podium to make jokes of them and their peddlers. Indeed, Ghana had seen massive development, unprecedented, under the Mills’s only three-and-a-half years in office.
But why should death unilaterally abrogate the rapid developmental contract between Ghanaians on one hand and their dying president on the other, and at this material time, must be the million Ghana-Cedi question, to which one must seek answer.
This is where Death has stolen the best we ever had in our stock; that we would have loved to have forever, and that we would have cherished forever for its worth.
However, at this trying times, one would wish and advise that Ghana remains calm, with prayer that God gives her another leader caste in the mold of Professor John Evans Atta Mills, who would not follow worldly things, but use the country’s meager income for the principal interest of all Ghanaians.
In the late Professor Atta Mills, Ghana lost a gem; Africa loses a peacemaker and the world loses a unifier
We, at The Informer, can only say to the good old Prof, Sir, you fought a good fight, so rest in perfect peace.
ADIEU, BELOVED PRESIDENT