Atta Mills Was The Only Honest President In The Fourth Republic – Kpebu

The late Professor John Evans Atta Mills was the only honest President in Ghana in the Fourth Republican dispensation, a private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has observed.

Apart from him, the rests are dishonest, he said.

Mr Kpebu said this on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday October 23 while adding his voice to calls for a benevolent dictator to head the Ghana as president.

Although he supports that call, he questioned when Ghana was going to experience such a leader.

He said “some say we need a benevolent dictator but this benevolent dictator, this argument has been made for over 30 years since I became conscious but we haven’t seen it.

“All the presidents we have had apart from Atta Mills who is the the honest, the rest are very dishonest, so where are we going to get the benevolent dictator from?

“Atta Mills has been the honest man [but] the rest are not, I am talking about the Fourth Republic. Atta Mills, people will die and say he was an honest man. Apart from [him] I don’t know either of them that is said to be honest.

“So this thing about benevolent dictator, yes, but when is that going to come?”

He further observed that the current 1992 Constitution has defects that have be corrected through amendments.

He said the document gives too much power to the President.

“The best is that we can work out this democracy by fixing the constitution, this constitution is too lopsided, it is giving the President too much power,” he said.