Folks, the NPP’s Akufo-Addo last
Friday issued a statement from his “rat hole” to wish Ghanaians a happy Easter
celebration. He told his supporters that he was in “high spirits” and urged
them too to be so.
High Spirits while still praying
and fasting for God’s intervention so the 9 Supreme Court judges will nullify
over 4 million votes to dislodge President Mahama from the seat of government
for him to occupy?
High spirits while Justice Kpegah
is at his tail with the make-or-break suit on impersonation and daring him to come
out of his “rat hole” to file his response to the “request to admit facts” and
meet him in court?
Those must be really high spirits of a kind,
indeed; Akufo-Addo must have a tough skin to be in “high spirits” despite all
that is happening. I admire him for that.
Our probing of the issues raised
by Justice Kpegah’s suit, however, continues because we want to plot the
timeline of Akufo-Addo’s rise to fame, which is now being threatened by Justice
Kpegah’s legal onslaught.
In response to the nagging
question on where Akufo-Addo was between 1967 and July 1971 when he surfaced as
being called to the English Bar (Middle Temple), one of his sympathizers (maybe,
an apologist or admirer) said a lot.
Here is part of it, which sets us up for further discussion of the
missing link in Akufo-Addo’s biography. I reproduce the response in its
entirety, picking each in its stride for comment:
- “In
1961, Akufo-Addo was enrolled at Lancing College in Sussex, the UK, and
1971 for Inns of Court School of Law, now City Law School London, which is
one of the seven schools of City University in the City of London.”
MY COMMENT:
There is no doubt that Akufo-Addo
was admitted at Lancing College and lived in Field’s house in 1961 and had his “O”
and “A” level education there. We don’t know the name he went by within this
period (whether W.A.D. Akufo Addo/W.A.D. akufo
Addo or Nana Addo Danquah/Dankwa Akufo Addo (Akufo-Addo). Many variants
of his name now!!
What we don’t know is whether he
entered Inns of Court Law School in 1971 and completed it that same year to
merit being called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in July 1971.
- “Now
the course that Akufo-Addo studied, let me give you bit of background of
the Inns of Court School of Law. It has two ways of training lawyers.
Firstly, you can be trained as a lawyer by three-year undergraduate
Bachelor of Laws (LLB) programme, a two-year Graduate Entry LLB degree
programme, a one-year Masters of Law (LLM) and the Graduate Diploma in Law
(also known as the Common Professional Examination) or
MY COMMENT
We can see clearly how this
Akufo-Addo apologist has cut corners (“Now the course that Akufo-Addo studied,
let me give you bit of background of the Inns of Court School of Law…”). We thought
he was going to tell us the course(s) that Akufo-Addo read there. We know he
had third class in economics at the University of Ghana, Legon, in 1967. But we
don’t know what he read where to become what.
- “Opting
for the Bar Professional Training Course (formerly the Bar Vocational
Course) for intending barristers and the Legal Practice Course for
intending solicitors which non-law graduates can enter. Nana Addo opted
for the second option, when he fully qualified as lawyer that’s why he was
called into the English Bar in 1971.”
MY COMMENTS
I repeat the apologist’s
response: “Nana Addo opted for the second option (i.e., the Legal Practice
Course for intending solicitors), when he fully qualified as lawyer that’s why
he was called into the English Bar in 1971.”
So, Akufo-Addo chose the course “when
he fully qualified as lawyer that’s why he was called into the English Bar in
1971”?
What must be happening? So, did
he choose the course after qualifying (when he qualified) as a lawyer? How
impossible? Really baffling, my good friends.
PROBABLE CONCLUSION
Folks, this response came from
someone who claimed to have worked with Akufo-Addo in his law firm for 5 years
and knew his background. But his response has revealed several troubling aspects
for more analysis, interpretation, and interrogation. Immediate questions to
spark the probing include:
- If
Akufo-Addo, indeed, attended that institution to be trained as a lawyer,
why did he eliminate it from his CV just as he did the Oxford University?
Does he not value that institution well enough to know how important it is
to his professional/career status? We’ve asked these questions because
even the elementary school that he attended in Ghana and Lancing College in
Sussex for his “O” and “A” levels are given prominence on his CV.
- What
is shady or disgraceful about that Inns of Court (or whatever the law
school that trained him is called) to warrant its being eliminated even
though it would have filled the four-year gap in Akufo-Addo’s timeline?
The overarching question still
hangs: Where was Akufo-Addo between 1967 and 1971?
Based
on the explanation given above by that apologist, we can ask more questions: Is
it possible for Akufo-Addo to enter that law institution in 1971 and complete
his law training that very year to be called to the English Bar in July that
same year (1971) and for him to proceed to Paris, France, that very year to
work as a lawyer with a renowned international US
law firm, Coudert Freres, for five years (1971–1975) before being called to the
Ghana Bar on July 8, 1975?
BIG QUESTIONS: Who were
Akufo-Addo’s classmates with whom he took the course in law or with whom he
enrolled and graduated? Anybody out there to confirm him as a classmate?
We will continue to ask questions
until we get convincing answers to lay the matter to rest.
I am more than certain that by
asking Akufo-Addo to respond to the fact that he is not the W.A.D akufo Addo
with No. 1190 on the roll of lawyers in Ghana, Justice Kpegah is really pushing
for something extra-ordinary.
Meantime, we are making every
effort to know what he filed in response to Justice Kpegah’s request for him to
admit facts (that he is not the W.A.D. akufo Addo with number 1190 on the roll
of lawyers in Ghana and that his junior partner Prempeh is not also on the roll
of lawyers in Ghana). As soon as we get anything, we will release it for our
analysis. Stay tuned.
Very interesting analysis Doc. I have difficulty in understanding how for the past 5 to 6 years he has been quick in sending Easter/Christmas/Eid (Muslim Holy Festivals)/Congratulatory/etc. messages but he is reluctant in showing his Law certificate to the public. This is someone who (Tu fia kwa---but may His will be done always) wants to rule Ghana.
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