The Ghana Bar Association has conferred on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo its inaugural lifetime award.

The Association did so at its 2024/2025 Annual conference in Kumasi on Monday.

Ahead of the presentation, the GBA President Yaw Acheampong Boafo noted that “On 8th July 1975, William Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was enrolled on the roll of lawyers of the republic of Ghana with bar number 1195.

“Subsequently, he was elected president of the Greater Accra Bar and became a member of the general council of the GBA.

“In 1995, he filed to contest the position of national president but as he had become a politically exposed person he graciously withdrew his nomination at the conference which was held in Kumasi.”

“On 7th January 2017, he was sworn into office as the fifth president of the republic and became the first member of the general council of the bar to be elected and sworn into the high office of president of the republic of Ghana.

“The GBA hereby confers on his excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as the first ever recipient of the GBA lifetime award,”