A founding father of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has described the late Akoto Ampaw as a true human rights lawyer.
He said he had known Akoto Ampaw for over forty years and engaged in several political activities together.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe and Akoto Ampaw were part of the organizers of the ‘Kume Preko’ demonstration organized in 1995 against the introduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy by the then Rawlings administration.
Speaking on the demise of Mr Akoto Amapw on the mid-Day news on TV3 Friday, October 20, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe said “I have known him for close to 40 years, we have done a lot of political activities together, he was a great activist and a true human rights lawyer.”
Mr Akoto Ampaw died on Friday, October 20 after a short illness.
Famous lawyer Akoto Ampaw is dead
He was a veteran Ghanaian lawyer and human rights activist.
Lawyer Anthony Akoto Ampaw is married with children.
He graduated from the University of Ghana, LL.B in 1973 and the Ghana School of Law, B.L in 1993. Popularly known as ‘Sheeyshey’ right from his student days at the University of Ghana, Ampaw was part of the New Patriotic Party’s legal team in the Electoral Petition of 2013.
He was the head of the legal team that defended President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s win in the 2020 Presidential elections at the Supreme Court.