Four members of Parliament of the Majority side in Parliament have filed a private member’s resolution calling for the formation of a bipartisan group to investigate the death of former President John Evans Atta-Mills.
Frank Annoh Dompreh, the Majority Chief Whip, is the driving force behind this move.
The reason for the investigation is unclear, but if the resolution is accepted by the Speaker and submitted for debate, the sponsors will be expected to explain a reason.
Habib Iddrisu, MP for Tolon, Davis Opoku Ansah, MP for Mpraeso, and Yves Hanson Nortey, MP for Tema Central, complete the quartet of lawmakers seeking the intervention of the house to investigate the death on July 24, 2012.
Shortly before his death, Atta-Mills had returned to Ghana after a medical checkup in the United States.
Between 1997 to 2001, Mr. Atta-Mills, who died at the age of 68, served as Vice President to former military ruler Jerry Rawlings.
After narrowly defeating the then-governing New Patriotic Party flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, in the 2008 elections, he rose to power.
Though the cause of his death was not revealed, Atta-Mills had been battling throat cancer and had been in the United States for medical treatment in the days preceding up to his death.
Atta-Mills died hours after becoming ill, according to his office.
Dr. Cadman Mills, Mills’ brother, later revealed that he died as a result of complications from a major hemorrhagic stroke caused by a brain aneurysm.