Embattled member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Koku Anyidoho has accused the brother of the late former President John Evans Atta-Mills of disrespecting the wishes of his deceased brother.

In an interview on Kingdom FM, the Chief Executive Officer of the Atta Mills Institute alleged that Mr Sammy Atta-Mills, the Member of Parliament for Komenda-Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) was directed by the late president to publish a thesis he had written.

The thesis said to have been written in the 1970s hovers around taxation.

According to Mr Koku Anyidoho, for years, Mr Sammy Atta-Mills has held on to the thesis without making an effort to have it published.

“You Sammy Atta Mills, you are the same person who said that before your brother passed on, he left something with you, his PhD thesis he wrote in the 70s… He gave the only copy of the thesis to his friend who returned it just in 2012.

“He (Prof Mills) told you (Sammy Atta Mills) that all the knowledge he has acquired in taxation was in that thesis and begged you to publish it into a book for the world to have access to it.

“Up to today that book has not been published. It is with Sammy Atta Mills,” he is quoted to have said by Ghanaweb.

For Mr Anyidoho, this indicates that Mr Sammy Atta-Mills does not have the legacy of the late Evans Atta-Mills at heart.

“You don’t care about your brother; you don’t care about his legacy,” Anyidoho added.

The former deputy General Secretary of the NDC made the comments on Monday, July 24, 2023, which marked 11th anniversary of the death of Prof Mills.

A wreath-laying event was held at the Asomdwee Park, the resting place of the late former president to honour his memory.