The founding Vice Chancellor of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) in Ho, Professor Fred Newton Binka wants the institution to be named after Ghana’s late president, John Evans Atta Mills.
In 2010, Professor Evans Atta Mills proposed the construction of two public universities, UHAS, Ho in the Volta Region and University of Energy and Natural Resources (UENR), Sunyani of the Bono Region.
UHAS, which started with 154 students in September 2012 now has a total of 7,678 students.
“The legacy of the late Prof John Evans Atta Mills, is so critical and important to today’s Ghana and worldwide. He was a president to all Ghanaians, he was peace loving and soft spoken,” Binka said during a memorial lecture organised by the J.E.A Mills Memorial Heritage at the university campus.
“My brothers and sisters, you have to set the pace of immortalising our late Prof John Evans Atta Mills for his vision in establishing the two universities and his critical decision to support financially the building of UHAS from ground zero.
“I call on the government to name the university as the John Evans Atta Mills University of Health and Allied Sciences,” he added.
Atta Mills was born at Tarkwa on 21 July 1944. He attended the University of Ghana, Legon where he received a Bachelor’s Degree and Professional Certificate in Law (1967). While earning the Ph.D. in oriental and African studies from the University of London at the age of 27, Mills was selected as a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford Law School (USA).
He spent more than 25 years imparting acquired knowledge to students, and rose in position from lecturer to senior lecturer to associate professor before becoming the president of Ghana.
On 3 January 2009, Mills was declared by the Electoral Commission as the president-elect of Ghana after a second presidential run-off of in the 2008 presidential elections. Prof. Mills was sworn into office as president on Wednesday 7 January 2009.
He was the first Ghanaian president to die in office on 24 July 2012. He left behind a wife and his son.
Albert Kuzor
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