Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo named on Friday Supreme Court justice Sophia Akuffo as the new Chief Justice.
Justice Akuffo, who has been a judge of the Supreme Court for more than 20 years, takes over from Mrs. Georgina Theodora Wood who retires on June 8. She will become the fourth most powerful person in Ghana after the President, Vice President and Speaker of Parliament. She will also be the second female Chief Justice in the West African country.
The president, in a speech to introduce her, said she is as a “worthy successor” to outgoing Chief Justice Wood.
President Akufo-Addo said he has known Justice Akuffo for nearly 40 years, and trusts her ability and integrity to deliver.
He praised Justice Akuffo for her “hard work, her capacity for detailed research, her independence of mind and spirit, her honesty and integrity, her deep-seated respect for rule of law and her abiding belief in the sovereignty of the Almighty God”.
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