Demand for Prof Atta-Mills’ autopsy report is legitimate – Akufo-Addo

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that the autopsy report on the late Professor John Evans Atta-Mills who died on the seat as President of Ghana should be a public record.

He described the demand for the report as a legitimate request that should be heeded.

Mr Akufo-Addo said these when the Odomaa Clan of Ekumfi, accompanied by former presidential spokesperson Koku Anyidoho paid a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House.

During the interaction, the Kyedomhene of Ekumfi Asaman, Nana Enyimfua III urged the presidency to facilitate the release of the autopsy report after raising concerns that they were yet to receive the autopsy result after 11 years of his demise.

Mr Anyidoho also told President AKufo-Addo “There was no autopsy report that we saw, not me. One of the siblings of the MP for KEEA, Samuel Attah Mills in one of the various radio interviews trying to shoot down my importance in the scheme of things said he was given anuthrosy report. how untrue how untrue I don’t know.”

In response, President Akufo-Addo said “Our late former President was my friend, I knew him way back in Legon, we were at Legon together the same year at the Legon Hall.

“I can’t understand why up till now you haven’t received the autopsy report. It should be part of the official documentation, and it should be part of the public record.

“We will have to find out how to proceed on that  but it is a legitimate demand for wanting to have.”

Prof Atta Mills died on July 24, 2012, at the 37 Military Hospital three days after his 68th birthday.