256:, and in 1972 moved to the Kaneshie North 3 and 4 Local Authority Primary School. In 1975, he enrolled at the Methodist Primary School in Mangoase, where he remained for a year prior to entering Universal Academy Preparatory School in Bubuashie. He studied there from 1976 until 1979. That same year, he gained admission to the City Secondary and Business College, where he obtained his Ordinary level certificate in 1983, and then proceeded to the
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both Ackah-Yensu and Asiedu. The committee reported Ackah-Yensu and Asiedu's pledge to eschew partisanship in their rulings also as a reason for recommendation in their report. On 11 December 2022, the
Parliament of Ghana unanimously approved his nomination. After his approval, Speaker of parliament,
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On 19 October 2022, Asiedu was vetted by the appointments committee, and on 7 December 2022, the appointments committee recommended his approval together with
Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu, to parliament. The committee's report cited "knowledge of the law", "character" and "competence" as attributes of
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Following his secondary education, Asiedu had his
National Service at Kinbu Junior Secondary School from 1985 to 1986. He later joined K. E. Wood and Company as an Auditing Clerk where he worked from 1986 to 1987. After his call to the bar in 1992, he had his post-tertiary National Service at Legal
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commented that the two nominated judges should have been on the
Supreme Court long ago. Bagbin further questioned why Justice Asiedu was in the High Court from 2006 to 2019 and remarked that "...the progress was so slow at the bench. I just could not imagine it and he never went for anything apart
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in 1996 where he began working as
Magistrate until 2002 when he became a Circuit Court judge. He became a justice of the High Court in 2006 adjudicating at the Fast Track (Automated) High Court in Accra and the Commercial Court in Accra. He worked in this capacity until 2019 when he was appointed
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Between 2016 and 2018, he doubled as an adjunct lecturer of
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