The Convener of the Forum for Governance and Justice says those calling for an inquest into the circumstances surrounding the death of late president John Atta Mills must also demand tests for banned substances in persons seeking political office. Dr Clement Apaak told Joy News' Dzifa Bampoh full disclosure of the health status of persons seeking political must necessarily include tests for banned substances in other politicians because that also constitutes a health issue. He was condemning calls by the Ghana Medical Association and the pro-opposition group, Alliance for Accountable Governance for an inquiry into how the president died and what was the cause of death. He said the calls were not only mischievous but misplaced. He explained further that until a law is passed to make it mandatory for presidents to reveal their health status it will be “fruitless and baseless” to demand for an inquest into the death of the president. “There is no law that makes it mandatory for the health of the president to be made public,” he said. He said with the Constitutional Review Process still in progress the country can consider enacting such a law to make the health status of the president public. “If indeed we as a people decide that the health of our leaders and our presidents in particular is one of importance then what we need is to make this proposal to be included in the constitution so that we will have a law and we will have a provision that would ensure that there is no ambiguity…. about the health status of our leaders,” he said. “…If we can do that then we will be tackling the issue from a very solid basis. Other than that what is happening now is the usual politicization of a very important issue and we are not looking at putting in place the laws that would allow for us to get to the bottom of what we all now believe is a very important issue that we must consider.” A member of the government’s legal team, Chris Ackumey in a reaction said the call for an inquest into the death of the president is “unnecessary, uncalled for and very mischievous.” He said after the brother of the late president Dr Cadman Mills had revealed that the late president died of massive stroke, that should have put the matter to rest. He said any further inquest into the president’s death will amount to impugning the integrity of Dr Cadman Mills.