Why Atta Mills continued to sleep at Osu Castle despite advice from his family to move out

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Kwame Peter 1 year ago

Very very unacceptable excuse,what was Jubilee House(Flagstaff House) there for? Party without elders,this mumu brother should have kept this foolish excuse to himself.

Very very unacceptable excuse,what was Jubilee House(Flagstaff House) there for? Party without elders,this mumu brother should have kept this foolish excuse to himself.
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Foli Foli 1 year ago

The Flagstaff house was mined at the time. If the professor were to move inside he would have died instantly.

The Flagstaff house was mined at the time. If the professor were to move inside he would have died instantly.
Kunta 1 year ago

Woaa look at such a thinking typical NDC f00lish thinking. They always have a weird understanding to issues that makes them look f00lish

Woaa look at such a thinking typical NDC f00lish thinking. They always have a weird understanding to issues that makes them look f00lish
AKOSUA GOODIES 1 year ago

So the leaky roof could not be replaced or repaired? Massa find something convincing to sayand stop anansesem. No wonder Mahama was able to bribe you to lie about your brother's death. Koku Anyidaho is very right.

So the leaky roof could not be replaced or repaired? Massa find something convincing to sayand stop anansesem. No wonder Mahama was able to bribe you to lie about your brother's death. Koku Anyidaho is very right.
Kunta 1 year ago

True Anyidoho may be right after all.

True Anyidoho may be right after all.
Atsu London 1 year ago

There is no single person in the entire NDC party who is genuine, can you believe this lies how much does it cost to renovate this accommodation for the president.Tell this to the dogs. The reason you rejected the free SHS

There is no single person in the entire NDC party who is genuine, can you believe this lies how much does it cost to renovate this accommodation for the president.Tell this to the dogs. The reason you rejected the free SHS
Athena- US 1 year ago

Go for your medication Atsu London. It's sometimes better to keep quiet if you have nothing constructive and reasonable to say.
It's only a fool like you who will argue that the NDC rejected free SHS. First, the free SHS i ...
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Go for your medication Atsu London. It's sometimes better to keep quiet if you have nothing constructive and reasonable to say.
It's only a fool like you who will argue that the NDC rejected free SHS. First, the free SHS is a constitutional provision and requirement. The npp were not part of those who drafted the constitution. You see your stupidity and foolishness?
Secondly, the NDC started free SHS progressively- true. It's only a mental patient like you Atsu who will say otherwise.
AKOSUA GOODIES 1 year ago

Athena us. I think you need the medication not Atsu London. If you are not mentally sick then you are very foolish. From your narrative those who did not write the constitution cannot follow it? I beg to ask, ARE YOU AN ANIMA ...
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Athena us. I think you need the medication not Atsu London. If you are not mentally sick then you are very foolish. From your narrative those who did not write the constitution cannot follow it? I beg to ask, ARE YOU AN ANIMAL? WE SAW NDC INCLUDING YOUR MAHAMA SAYING FREE SHS IS 419. NO AMOUNT OF NDC FOOLISH RANTINGS CAN CHANGE OUR MIND. FUK OFF OFUI!
Nonsense 1 year ago

Chairman get ur facts right. It is FCUBE/basic education that was a constitutional provision and not free SHS. Can u tell which year group enjoyed NDCs so called free progressive SHS. NDC n JM bastardized free SHS n now ure s ...
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Chairman get ur facts right. It is FCUBE/basic education that was a constitutional provision and not free SHS. Can u tell which year group enjoyed NDCs so called free progressive SHS. NDC n JM bastardized free SHS n now ure shamelessly trying to claim ownership. Indecisive n foolish NDC party.
Skippy 1 year ago

Illiterate,the constitution stipulated progressively free secondary education ...its there in the 1992 constitution in BOLD FONT

Illiterate,the constitution stipulated progressively free secondary education ...its there in the 1992 constitution in BOLD FONT
Kunta 1 year ago

I think you Athena-US rather need medication

I think you Athena-US rather need medication
Ataa Obeng site 19 Tema 1 year ago

Prof. Mills should have been a pastor but not a politician, the man is too humble, it is only wicked people that do politics in Africa, they can kill fellow human beings for power which the prof. can not, may his soul rest in ...
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Prof. Mills should have been a pastor but not a politician, the man is too humble, it is only wicked people that do politics in Africa, they can kill fellow human beings for power which the prof. can not, may his soul rest in peace
Kunta 1 year ago

Pls pls pls don't describe sleeping under a leaky roof as humbleness. NDC followers are fond of misinterpreting some unjustifiable actions into something else. They try to create that impression to mean humbleness. How on ear ...
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Pls pls pls don't describe sleeping under a leaky roof as humbleness. NDC followers are fond of misinterpreting some unjustifiable actions into something else. They try to create that impression to mean humbleness. How on earth do you sleep in a leaky room and describe it as humbleness? Wake up your ideas bro.
Onaapo 1 year ago

A party with DEAD BRAIN MEMBERS NDC
Even BABIES WITH SHARP TEETHS ARE have looted the Country (Create, loot and Share) to acquire BIG MANSIONS. This IDIOT Samuel Atta Mills is still telling us this stupid ananse story.

O ...
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A party with DEAD BRAIN MEMBERS NDC
Even BABIES WITH SHARP TEETHS ARE have looted the Country (Create, loot and Share) to acquire BIG MANSIONS. This IDIOT Samuel Atta Mills is still telling us this stupid ananse story.

Okay that's why ASOMDWEE PARK was left to ROT. Thanks to MR. PRESIDENT AND KOKU, NDC, SHAME! SHAME!! SHAME!!!
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Grant 1 year ago

Why didn't he move to the Jubilee House, was he happy living in the colonial slave dungeon? He didn't feel comfortable moving to the Jubilee House because the NDC condemned the construction of that building. Indeed Tony Aidoo ...
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Why didn't he move to the Jubilee House, was he happy living in the colonial slave dungeon? He didn't feel comfortable moving to the Jubilee House because the NDC condemned the construction of that building. Indeed Tony Aidoo said the NDC would convert the place to a poultry farm if they won power.
Kofi Mensah 1 year ago

It is idiotic to suggest that the late president slept in a room that leaked and could not do anything about it. You don't lie to make your brother look stupid.

It is idiotic to suggest that the late president slept in a room that leaked and could not do anything about it. You don't lie to make your brother look stupid.
Foli Foli 1 year ago

Are you sure? The place was not safe at the time because of obvious reasons. Tell us the truth.

Are you sure? The place was not safe at the time because of obvious reasons. Tell us the truth.
KWASI IN EUROPE 1 year ago

Atta Mills killed himself out of ignorance by following poorly educated people. He said he would use the Jubilee House as a poultry farm so when he took office he was feeling guilty to move there. He thus foolishly lived in ...
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Atta Mills killed himself out of ignorance by following poorly educated people. He said he would use the Jubilee House as a poultry farm so when he took office he was feeling guilty to move there. He thus foolishly lived in a leaking room, endangered his health and died.
Kunta 1 year ago

You may be right

You may be right
Critical 1 year ago

Sammy is a real foolish man and doesn’t think before sleeping
Wat is all this but he sat down for his assistant to have a mansion funded by the state and and also jubilee house to be misused site there was no person who ca ...
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Sammy is a real foolish man and doesn’t think before sleeping
Wat is all this but he sat down for his assistant to have a mansion funded by the state and and also jubilee house to be misused site there was no person who cared abt prof to advise him
Kunta 1 year ago

I think the people of Komenda need a more sensible person to represent them. Never will any sensible person be proud to say what this man says about his brother.

It gives a negative impression about the people of Komenda a ...
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I think the people of Komenda need a more sensible person to represent them. Never will any sensible person be proud to say what this man says about his brother.

It gives a negative impression about the people of Komenda and their thinking.
Zargon 1 year ago

Was the man not sick? Did he not die of sickness? As a former president was he not given the best medical care there was? But did he still not die? The family should let us rest wei.. we have better things to think about than ...
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Was the man not sick? Did he not die of sickness? As a former president was he not given the best medical care there was? But did he still not die? The family should let us rest wei.. we have better things to think about than this.. the man has passed. Let him rest. Shame on you people and Koku the fool.
Jnr 1 year ago

This is not SACRIFICE, it's called CHOICE, he decided the squalor over comfort

This is not SACRIFICE, it's called CHOICE, he decided the squalor over comfort
ME 1 year ago

JEAM was just a puppet for NDC. Was he not the one who said Ghana would become like KOSOVO is he did not win? Out of the mouth comes the overflow of a man's heart: hypocrisy!

JEAM was just a puppet for NDC. Was he not the one who said Ghana would become like KOSOVO is he did not win? Out of the mouth comes the overflow of a man's heart: hypocrisy!
Mike O 1 year ago

I'm a bit disturbed about some of the comments here. Samuel, just tried to present an eulogy of his late brother. We all know the character attributes of JEA Mills, once being his extreme humility. His brother only gave an ex ...
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I'm a bit disturbed about some of the comments here. Samuel, just tried to present an eulogy of his late brother. We all know the character attributes of JEA Mills, once being his extreme humility. His brother only gave an example of that. Why the insults? Bringing in the usage of the Jubilee House/Flagstaff House should be an argument for another occasion. JJ Rawlings used the same simple quarters in the Osu castle as his sleeping place too (throughout his entire tunure) , when he was the Head of state and president. These are true humble souls. Let's recognize them for that.
Jack Toronto 1 year ago

So how does a president sleep in a leaky room?

So how does a president sleep in a leaky room?
Kunta 1 year ago

Mike O, gyimie w) who paa. W'fa aduro bu anaa?

Mike O, gyimie w) who paa. W'fa aduro bu anaa?
Mese Hmm 1 year ago

Samuel,
I bet you spiced this up a little. Leakage in the seat of government - no, in the president's bed room - which could not be sorted, but rather required that the president moves into private residency? Couldn't anyone ...
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Samuel,
I bet you spiced this up a little. Leakage in the seat of government - no, in the president's bed room - which could not be sorted, but rather required that the president moves into private residency? Couldn't anyone have advised the government to ask the minister of housing to sort it out before the end of day, or lose his job? That would have been easier done than ask the president to move house!
And we did not hear any suggesting to get it sorted asap? As a matter of fact, were all the rooms in the castle leaking, such that the president could not have moved into the guest house or some other room in the premises?
This was a tall order, Samuel!
Alex 1 year ago

It is mistake to say that Prof made sacrifice living at Osu castle. Jubilee has been already built but president Mills himself was opposed to removing there.
Please stop transforming the mistake of prof into sacrifice

It is mistake to say that Prof made sacrifice living at Osu castle. Jubilee has been already built but president Mills himself was opposed to removing there.
Please stop transforming the mistake of prof into sacrifice
Jabuni 1 year ago

Big liar, so the state could not work on the leaking roof? What a fabrication! Tell the story to the marines. Just stop it!

Big liar, so the state could not work on the leaking roof? What a fabrication! Tell the story to the marines. Just stop it!
TW3DE3 1 year ago

WHO CARES TO KNOW NOW? GYIMII NKOAA. TWEAAA! WHO SAID TWEAA? I DID!

WHO CARES TO KNOW NOW? GYIMII NKOAA. TWEAAA! WHO SAID TWEAA? I DID!
Ama ghana. 1 year ago

This man's story about the late prof living in the leaking room at the castle must be on the front page of the mariners news papers, my friend find proper excuse to tell ghanaians about late prof's staying at the osu castle.

This man's story about the late prof living in the leaking room at the castle must be on the front page of the mariners news papers, my friend find proper excuse to tell ghanaians about late prof's staying at the osu castle.
Adanko 1 year ago

So the president couldn’t have repaired the leakages on the roof . What a useless commentary.

So the president couldn’t have repaired the leakages on the roof . What a useless commentary.
KofSam 1 year ago

How could the president’s bed room at the castle be left in that deplorable condition? This story is unbelievable. This story is an overkill. Was the government lacking funds to fix the leaking roof in the president’s bed ...
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How could the president’s bed room at the castle be left in that deplorable condition? This story is unbelievable. This story is an overkill. Was the government lacking funds to fix the leaking roof in the president’s bedroom? How, why ? This is ridiculous.
Watchman 1 year ago

Everyone that knew the late President Atta Mills will testify that he was humble. However, I disagree with the statement that his humility led him to sleep in a leaky room. The late president could have ordered the roof to be ...
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Everyone that knew the late President Atta Mills will testify that he was humble. However, I disagree with the statement that his humility led him to sleep in a leaky room. The late president could have ordered the roof to be fixed. He deserved the best.
ZUZA 1 year ago

Because they rubbished the construction of the Jubilee House, which they had described as a chicken shack, there would have been irreparable shame if Atta Mills had moved there. The Jubilee House was built just to avoid this ...
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Because they rubbished the construction of the Jubilee House, which they had described as a chicken shack, there would have been irreparable shame if Atta Mills had moved there. The Jubilee House was built just to avoid this very problem of causing inconvenience to the traveling public. The solution was there staring them right in the face yet because of petty politics they decided to remain blind to it. This is a typical example of actions by the enemies of progress. They can’t think beyond their noses. The difference between the enemies of progress and the ‘propagators’ of progress is like night and day. One group will import tigers and elephants into enclosures, feed them to promote 24hr tourism while the other gives skills training to kayayei. Take your pick.
Kunta 1 year ago

Just can't understand why a whole President should undergo such an unnecessary ordeal. Was he doing that as a populist thinking or what?

PWD Prestige have always been at the service for all government projects and it never ...
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Just can't understand why a whole President should undergo such an unnecessary ordeal. Was he doing that as a populist thinking or what?

PWD Prestige have always been at the service for all government projects and it never occurred to late Mills and family to just order for leaking roofs to be changed? The Dagomba man may say "Nawuzorgor". It beats my thinking and imagination.

That aside there was a Presidential suite at the Flagstaff House. Again there is a Presidential residence at Cantonments so there is no justification for such an unnecessary move. There were so many options so why this? It would have been better for the family to keep mute over this issue rather than thinking by coming out with such a story people will think late Mills was modest. It sends a completely different signal about him.

Anyway it's past and gone.
It took NPP to provide magnificent presidential lodge 1 year ago

I don't know why NDC keeps worrying voters. Every good thing in Ghana has come from NPP govt: Jubilee House, NHIS, Free SHS, Ghana card, 1D1F, etc etc. Apart from false claims the only initiative from NDC is inexplicable 24 ...
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I don't know why NDC keeps worrying voters. Every good thing in Ghana has come from NPP govt: Jubilee House, NHIS, Free SHS, Ghana card, 1D1F, etc etc. Apart from false claims the only initiative from NDC is inexplicable 24 Hour fantom economy
Skippy 1 year ago

GET fund,VAT which Akufo Addo which your dimwitted went on demonstration against leading to people being killed,DACF,NHIS was started by NDC ,infact the constitution itself

GET fund,VAT which Akufo Addo which your dimwitted went on demonstration against leading to people being killed,DACF,NHIS was started by NDC ,infact the constitution itself
Kwame Peter 1 year ago

Uncle Kofi Sam,let this be your last commentary about your brother’s three and a half years uneventful presidency. Throughout his days at Legon and subsequently at IRS,your brother was known as indecisive and timid and this ...
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Uncle Kofi Sam,let this be your last commentary about your brother’s three and a half years uneventful presidency. Throughout his days at Legon and subsequently at IRS,your brother was known as indecisive and timid and this is misconstrued as humility. It is this same weakness that kept him at the Osu Castle and allowed people who did not wish him and Ghana well to run and ruin his life while unwittingly providing cover for his appointees to loot the exchequer through payment of judgment debts.It is these same appointees who advised him not to relocate to Jubilee House out of shame and he complied.Same anti-Ghana people who advised some Ghanaians in some regions not to patronize MMT because it was set by NPP government under President Kuffuor.Little evil minds who want power again,fellow Ghanaians be warned!!!
AAA+ 1 year ago

This man was good person but was in hands of terrants who hired to feed him slowly with undetermined poison till his death, hmmm

This man was good person but was in hands of terrants who hired to feed him slowly with undetermined poison till his death, hmmm
Youngish 1 year ago

It was rejected out of shame not modesty. The late President had critiqued the construction of the Indian funded Jubilee House by Presudent Kufour and his party had taken the que to declare that the facility would not be used ...
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It was rejected out of shame not modesty. The late President had critiqued the construction of the Indian funded Jubilee House by Presudent Kufour and his party had taken the que to declare that the facility would not be used, for the Office of the President if Atta Mills won the election. The NDC actually promised to use it as a chicken coop. How could the honourable man who had just surprisingly won the election by 50,000 Votes settle and sleep in the building he rejected and his virulent supports rubbished. So he had a choice to sleep in the leaking chicken coop or the Presidenntial Palace. And of course pride won over reason and shame despite his severe ill health. It seen a respectable thing to do then, but now seem to be reckless populism to please a party, who soon abandoned the idea when he passed away.
Naa Atswei Mensah 1 year ago

LIKE SERIOUSLY!!! SAMUEL ATTA MILLS PLEASE SPARETHIS GREAT NATION THE COMEDY.

IT'S NOT FUNNY. NOT NICE. GHANA IS A DIGNIFIED NATION.

LIKE SERIOUSLY!!! SAMUEL ATTA MILLS PLEASE SPARETHIS GREAT NATION THE COMEDY.

IT'S NOT FUNNY. NOT NICE. GHANA IS A DIGNIFIED NATION.

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