STORY BY: KONADU BENEDICTA
A former Deputy Chief of Staff and Chairman of the John Evans Atta Mills Memorial Heritage Board, Alex Segbefia, says the late President Mills was never moved by money.
According to him, Prof. Mills could have ventured into a business to become a millionaire but he rather choose to be a president.
“The one thing that disturbs most politicians and all of us in our lives when we are growing is about money, how to make money. This was a guy who was a Fulbright scholar. At 27, he was a doctor, got his doctorate, and became a professor. He could have gone into private industry and been a millionaire within two, three years. He decided that he was going to be a lecturer,” he said on GTV’s breakfast show on Friday, July 22, 2022.
According to him, the ex-President, John Mills, was offered money in his office but he rejected it.
“He was in a room, they brought money, I was there, almost $2 million in a bag, he said take it to the party headquarters. You are a foreign company. We don’t do with foreign money, so pass it through your local company and send it to the party headquarters and have it registered. The people got into their plane and left with the money. So he was not moved by money,” he asserted.
Notwithstanding, Alex Segbefia revealed that the ex- President used to be a ‘naughty boy‘.
