A group identifying itself as the Law Society of Ghana (LSG) has refuted widespread media allegations that Rt Hon. Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, the Speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, had resigned from the Ghana Bar Association (GBA).
On numerous news websites, there were numerous rumors that the Rt Hon. Bagbin had left the Ghana Bar Association.
This came up when the Speaker’s office was visited by the Law Society of Ghana (LSG) as a courtesy call to wish him well in his new role as President of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA).
Reacting to the development in the media, the LSG in a press statement issued today, Monday, 26, September 2022 said: ”It must be placed on record that nowhere in the Speaker’s welcoming remarks during our visit, did he ever state that he had resigned from the Ghana Bar Association (GBA).
In his remarks, he used strong language to emphasize his disgust with the GBA’s current situation and his desire to see improvement for a better Bar Association devoted to the goals, objectives, and ethics as understood and applied around the world.
The Speaker, according to LSG, only said that the GBA “has now become too elitist,” stressing that he used to pay his dues religiously until he realized that any attorney who had a close connection to the former Public Tribunal Court was not recognized by the GBA and did not receive last respects upon death. He gave examples. He no longer has as much interest in the GBA as he once did, which may or may not be related to his failure to pay his membership dues.
