Kofi Sam’s Mother Gagged From Speaking

The mother of the only child of the late President J.E.A. Mills, Ms Portia Obiri-Yeboah, was last Saturday prevented from speaking to the media by her family.

Ms Obiri-Yeboah had, at a post-burial gathering of well-wishers and sympathisers, indicated her willingness to put some issues into perspective, but her father is said to have advised otherwise.

The gathering, arranged by her family to formally mourn the passing and burial of the late President, was attended by some dignitaries, including Members of Parliament, health professionals, her relatives and loved ones.

Discussions among those who attended the function heightened when it was announced that the son of the late President, Kofi Sam Atta Mills, had no opportunity to read out a tribute he had prepared for his father during the burial service held last Friday at the Independence Square.

Suspicions and speculations were that Ms Obiri-Yeboah had wanted to voice out her frustrations about the development as well as other issues that had to do with her personality and her relationship with the late President.

In his tribute, Kofi Atta Mills indicated that his father was a family man with strict principles, who taught him to respect everyone he came into contact with.

His father instilled in him Christian values and told him to be content with whatever God had provided him with, he said.

“Even when you became President you showed by word and example that it is possible to hold political office without being corrupt,” he wrote.

He said, as a son, he found it interesting and intriguing joining his father on the campaign trail, adding that when his father got the mandate of the electorate, he served in humility “so as to create a better Ghana.”