By Alex Boye
Ghana’s Chief Justice (CJ), Kwasi Anin Yeboah was the first electorate to cast his vote in his hometown Toase in the Ashanti region.
His action as the first voter at the polling station yesterday shows a sign of good leadership in the country.
The chief justice decision to register and vote in his hometown tells how he always remembers his root as a Ghanaian.
Justice Anin Yeboah was hailed on his arrival at the polling station by the masses due to his quality leadership style over the years.
The Chief Justice was among the other Ghanaians who have called for peace before, during and after the 2020 general elections.
About Justice Anin Yeboah;
Justice Anin Yeboah was born on May 1953 at Toase in the Ashanti region.
He attended the Amaniampong Secondary school and Apam secondary school and then moved to the University of Ghana and the Ghana school of law where he graduated in 1981.
After graduating from the law school he served as an Assistant State Attorney at the Attorney General office Koforidua. He proceeded to work as a partner at A
fisem Chambers at its Koforidua branch.
He was later elected as the eastern regional Bar President. He served as a Justice of the Court of APEAL (2003-2008) and the High Court (2002-2003) in Ghana.
Justice Anin Yeboah has also provided his legal experience to football in his country, serving as chairman of the appeal court committee at the Ghana football association from 2004 to 2008.
He rose to become a member of the adjudicatory chamber of FIFA and he was subsequently in May 2017, appointed d as chairman of the disciplinary committee of the FIFA Congress in Bharain and was also chairman of the FIFA ethics committee.
In December 2019, President Akufo Addo nominated Justice Anin Yeboah to replace Sophia Akufo as chief justice of the supreme court of Ghana.
He was sworn into office on January 7 2020 as the chief justice of the Republic of Ghana. He is the first male chief justice in 12 years.
