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in 1956. On his return to Ghana in the year of Ghana's independence in 1957, he became a private legal practitioner for a year. In 1959, he entered the
Ghanaian public service as an assistant state attorney and rose to become a principal state attorney in 1964. Thereafter, in 1966, he was made
225:(19 October 1930 – 30 August 2018) was a Ghanaian lawyer and civil servant. He served as a specialist in legislative drafting in the service of Uganda, Ghana, Zambia and Sierra Leone. He is a former Solicitor-General of Ghana and once Acting Attorney General of Ghana.
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until 1987. He spent the next three years in legal draftsmanship roles in Zambia. From 1989 to 2014, he worked as an expert in legislative drafting in the
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