Former Presidential Spokesperson Samuel Koku Anyidoho ‘has renamed the Atta Mills Institute to Koku Anyidoho Institute (KAI).
The objectives of the Institute, however, remain the same and that is to work immortalize the work of former President John Evans Atta Mills.
The change comes in the wake of threats by the Atta-Mills family that nobody should merchandise the name of their brother and son.
Brother to the late President Dr Cadman Atta Mills observed at the Atta Mills’ Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, July 26, “There are his pictures everywhere. Some quotations of him. His name doesn’t appear in any of the quotations except, of course, the logo of the Atta Mills Institute”.
“I saw his grave. There his name appeared a little bit except that it was spelt ‘John Evans Atta-Mills’. For somebody who claimed to know him very well, even though the person who has the name himself has never put a hyphen in that name. They used this so-called refurbishment to promote themselves, to promote their Institute and to promote their pay paymasters.
“That’s not what Fiifi [Atta Mills] stood for,” he stressed.
Dr Cadman continued: “In my capacity as the Ebusuapanyin of the Nkuban Kyereba Twidan Abusua, the family has decided that we will contact our solicitors to make sure that they explore all avenues to stop the Atta Mills Institute.
“I will like Ghanaians to know that the so-called Atta Mills Institute is unsanctioned. It is unappreciated and it is most unwelcomed.”
However, in a response later on Tuesday, Mr Anyidoho, who worked very close with Professor Atta Mills while he was President, tweeted there will be a Koku Anyidoho Institute (KAI), to work for President Atta-Mills. Koku Anyidoho Institute (KAI), lives to glorify God & respect the memory of President Atta-Mills.