A book has been launched by the J.E.A Mills Memorial Heritage in honour of Ghana’s third President of the Fourth Republic, Professor John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills.
The book titled, “Atta Mills Around The Regions”, was launched during the 12th John Evans Atta Mills Memorial Anniversary Lecture held at the Cedi Conference Centre at the University of Ghana, Legon, on Friday, July 19, 2024.
The book, which chronicles the early life of the late legal scholar, his reign as President, and how he sustained the economy to become the most robust in the Fourth Republic, was reviewed and launched by Ransford Edward Van Gyampo, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Ghana, Legon.
Quoting the late Mills from the book on what he wanted to be remembered for during his time as President, Prof. Gyampo read that: “I want to be seen as truthful, humble, hands-on and down to earth- one of the people and one who follows the rules and eschews arrogance.”
Abridged biography of the late President John Evans Atta Mills
His Excellency Professor John Evans Atta Mills, President of the Republic of Ghana from January 07, 2008 to July 24, 2012, was born in Tarkwa on July 21, 1944. He attended Achimota School and the University of Ghana, Legon where he studied Law.
Professor J.E.A. Mills graduated from the Faculty of Law with a Bachelor of Laws in 1967 and proceeded to the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) where he was awarded a master’s degree, an LLM, in 1968. He earned his PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of the University of London.
While pursuing the PhD programme which he completed at age 27, he was selected a Fulbright Scholar at the Stanford Law School in the USA. He returned to Ghana after earning his PhD in 1971 to lecture at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana, Legon, for the next 25 years.
He was appointed first as Acting Commissioner for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in 1988 and confirmed as the Commissioner in 1989.
Professor Atta Mills was the Vice President of Ghana from 1997 to 2001 and became the President of Ghana in 2009 after the historic 2008 elections. President Atta Mills died on 24th July 2012, whilst in Office.
At the time of his death in 2012, he was the world’s only Fulbright Scholar to have been elected Head of State. President Atta Mills was a servant-leader, and an ardent lover of sports – his known specialties were sports, taxation and law.
Some copies of the book were sold immediately after the launch by Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuiye, the Member of Parliament for Odododiodio.
Present at the event include former President John Dramani Mahama, flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and his running mate, Prof. Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang, The Rt. Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, the Speaker of Parliament. Others also include Betty Mould Iddrisu, Dr. Kwabena Duffour, Johnson Asiedu Nketia and other statesmen, with former Chief Justice, Sophia Abena Boafoaa Akuffo as Chairperson for the event.
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