Akufo-Addo receives inaugural GBA Lifetime Achievement Award

President Akufo-Addo has been conferred with the Ghana Bar Association’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

The conferment happened at the Annual Ghana Bar Association Conference in Kumasi on Monday, September 9, 2024.

President Akufo-Addo is the first to receive the high honour from the Ghana Bar Association.

Speaking at the ceremony, the President of the Ghana Bar Association, Yaw Acheampong Boafo, extolled the president for his contribution and service to the Association.

🚨ICYMI🇬🇭👨🏾‍⚖️🎓: President Nana Akufo-Addo has been conferred with the Ghana Bar Association’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award.

This makes him the first-ever recipient of this prestigious honor.

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Akufo-Addo’s journey in the GBA

Yaw Acheampong recounted President Akufo-Addo’s long association with the GBA and his contributions to the association since his call to the bar in 1975.

He said:

“8th July 1975, William Addo-Danquah Akufo-Addo was enrolled on the roll of lawyers of the Republic of Ghana with bar number 1195. Subsequently, he was elected president of the Greater Accra Bar and became a member of the general council of the Ghana Bar Association.

“In 1995, he filed to contest for the position of national president, but as he had become a politically exposed person, he graciously withdrew his nomination at the conference held in Kumasi.

“On 7th January 2017, he was sworn into office as the 5th president of the fourth republic and became the first member of the General Council of the Bar to be elected and sworn into the high office of the Republic of Ghana.”