338:. He served in that capacity until 1962. He was a member of the Committee appointed by the state to enquire into the assets of Ministers of State of the First Republic in 1961. He also served as member of the Council for Legal Education from 1961 to 1966. In 1962 he was a Government nominee for the drafting of the master Agreement for The Volta River Project. He was appointed Justice of the
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in July 1965. He was appointed Judge
Advocate General of Ghana Armed Forces from 1966 to 1982. In 1967 he was Chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the structure and remuneration of the Public Services of Ghana; popularly known as the MILLS-ODOI committee and also served as Chairman of The
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Granville Sharp Commission of Enquiry held in Accra from 1959 to 1960 and in January 1960 he was appointed Justice of The High Court of Ghana. That same year, he became the first ever Ghanaian to be appointed to hold the dual offices of Solicitor-General and Director of Public
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Service as a second Division clerk in the Law courts. It was during this period that he laid the foundation for his future professional career as a lawyer and later a Judge. In 1947, he resigned from the civil service and proceeded to the
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Football Club from 1951 to 1952. He also took a keen interest in horse racing; he became the Legal
Advisor to the Horse Racing Board of Control from 1961 to 1963. From 1963 to 1965, he was Chairman of the Disciplinary Committee of the
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Commission from 1967 to 1968. He also served as Chancellor of the Accra Anglican Diocese from 1972 to 1988. In 1979 he served as Chairman of The Boards of Directors at the Ghana Italy Petroleum company (GHAIP) now
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Energetics Football Team in 1934 and for Accra Standfast from 1935 to 1947. In 1935 and 1937, he played for the nation against
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and so impressive was his record at the academy that in advance of the publication of the school certificate exam results, he was enrolled as a teacher, and joined the staff of the school.
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