The government cannot release public funds to support the John Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library in Cape Coast because the memorial and research facility is a private initiative.
The Central Regional Minister, Mr Kwamena Duncan, told the Daily Graphic in an interview on Wednesday that “this facility is purely a private enterprise to immortalise President Mills, so government cannot commit funds to its running.”
Private initiative
He said because the project was a private initiative such as presidents Kufuor and Rawlings’s foundations, no government funds could be released to fund the library.
“Besides, when I was taking over as minister, nothing on President Mills’s Library was included in my hand over notes, so we can’t fund it,” he said.
Committee
Mr Duncan said he could recall during the inauguration of the facility, a committee was constituted to run the affairs of the library, and added “I remember a committee was constituted, under the chairmanship of Mr Kofi Totobi Quakyi to fund the library.”
We won’t fund
“So there is no way the government can step in at this stage. The government will not commit one cedi to this project,” he said.
The John Evans Atta Mills Presidential Library has been closed down for lack of funds to run it.
The two-storey building, situated opposite the Cape Coast Castle, has been under lock and key few months after it was inaugurated and handed over to the University of Cape Coast (UCC) because there is no budget to fund the facility.
Inauguration
President John Dramani Mahama inaugurated the library on July 24, 2016 to coincide with the anniversary of the death of President Mills.
The library has a 100-capacity auditorium, 45-seater multi-media centre, seminar rooms and a museum that holds historical materials that reflect the life and works of the late president.
Source: Daily Graphic
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I wonder how this can be referred to as a private project. Let us for once stop this lopsided politics,get down to work to build Ghana and leave posterity with ideas and ideals they can never forget. Please Sir Kwamina Duncan realign your thinking.
ndc ple with no brains do things without any plan yet when someone is doing something they ask for the plan. is that not stup1d1>ty.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I hear there is something call PPP. Could this project be of benefit to the people of Ogua? Who is this so called private person behind the project. Supposed he has run out of money to run the project, shd that be a reason for the project to also be runned down? Finnaly I wonder how the reaction of the government would be if the name of the project is changed from Atta Mills private library? Just wondering?
***barred word*** politricks,why propagating private job participation in your campaign messages.
Sefa kwai please take this project up , for the love of atta Mills we will contribute in our small way .let celebrate good men and contribute to their project then hand it over to ucc is can also serve as tourist office since it close to the cape coast vastle.Is the place a busy place can't structure be added to rent to banks to support the library.
Well said, hard working Minister. They should have seen this coming a long time ago and not commission it for political reasons. ***barred word*** NDC! ***barred word*** JD Mahama!