Ghana names major street,cluster of schools after fallen leader

The late Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills attends the closing ceremony of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) summit in Malabo,
Equatorial Guinea, July 1, 2011. Ghana has named one of Accra's busiest street and a cluster of schools after the fallen leader. (Xinhua/Ding Haitao)

August 6 (Xinhua) -- Members of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) have named the High Street, one of the busiest streets in the Central Business District of the
national capital, and the new ultra-modern millennium city school building in memory of the late Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills.

The assembly members passed the resolution at an emergency meeting to change the name of the Accra High Street to "Evans Atta Mills High Street" while the ultra-modern
Salvation Army Cluster of Schools is to be called "President Evans Atta Mills Educational Center of Excellence", Numo Blafo III, Public Relations Officer (PRO) of the AMA, told
Xinhua via telephone.  The millennium city school building was commissioned on July 18, six days before president Mills died on July 24. The renaming of the school is in
recognition of the contribution and commitment President Mills made to
The late Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills attends the closing ceremony of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) summit in Malabo,
Equatorial Guinea, July 1, 2011. Ghana has named one of Accra's busiest street and a cluster of schools after the fallen leader. (Xinhua/Ding Haitao)
educational infrastructure both in the city and across the country.
The late Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills attends the closing ceremony of the 17th Ordinary Session of the African Union (AU) summit in Malabo,
Equatorial Guinea, July 1, 2011. Ghana has named one of Accra's busiest street and a cluster of schools after the fallen leader. (Xinhua/Ding Haitao)

Former President Mills, who was sworn in as the third president of the Fourth republic of Ghana in January 2009, died at the 37 Military Hospital last Tuesday while receiving
medical attention after being suddenly taken ill a few hours earlier. In line with Ghana's 1992 Constitution, then Vice-President John Dramani Mahama was sworn in as head
of state Tuesday evening, a few hours after the announcement of Mills' death. The funeral of the former Ghanaian leader will be held from August 8-10 in Accra with several
heads of state and high-powered delegations across the world expected to attend the memorial service for the late president. (Xinhua)