Legal Academic Questions Sophia Akuffo's Council of State Appointment

Sophia Akuffo’s council of state appointment was constitutionally flawed from the start — Ansa-Asare

A senior Ghanaian legal academic has argued that the circumstances surrounding former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo's resignation from the Council of State were set in motion from the very moment she was selected for the body — a choice he says bypassed a more senior and constitutionally appropriate candidate. Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Dean of the Faculty of Laws at Mountcrest University College and former Director of the Ghana School of Law, made the remarks on Newsfile on Saturday, days after Presid...

By Caleb Ahinakwah