Profound private legal practitioner Akoto Ampaw popularly known as “Sheeyshey” has been confirmed dead.he died on Friday,October 20 after battling an undisclosed ailment at the University of Ghana medical centre
The late Ampaw was part of the legal team that defended President Akufo Addo to victory in the 2020 presidential elections at the supreme court.
Some senior statemen and citizens have expressed their sympathy and condolences.some have shared their memories of the profound private legal practitioner, Akoto Ampaw.
A popular private legal practitioner Kofi Bentil has eulogized the late famous lawyer Akoto Ampaw in a Facebook post.
“Here is the man “Sheeyshey”, on this occasion, he led Hassan Tampuli to fight for polling station accountability, [but] few appreciated the importance of this. Suffice it to say without this Court Ruling we won, NPP would not have won the election, because there was no way to account for ballots.”
“That was the quality of the man Sheeyshey, Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, quietly makes monumental impacts and walks away from the limelight till he is needed again!!”
“Rest well My Mentor”, he eulogized.
Also, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe who is a founding father of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has so much to say about the late legal practitioner. He said the late Akoto Ampaw is a true human rights lawyer and had known Akoto Ampaw for over forty years and both of them have engaged in several political activities together.
Dr Tamakloe recalled their days on the Kume Preko demonstration. The demonstration was organized in 1995 against the introduction of the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy by the then Rawlings administration.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe testified to the great feat Akoto Ampaw achieved as a human rights lawyer.
“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.”
Lawyer Akoto Ampaw was a veteran Ghanaian lawyer and human rights activist. He was born on 14th June 1971. He died at the age of 52 years.
He graduated from the University of Ghana with an LL.B in 1973 and the Ghana School of Law with a B.L. in 1993. He was popularly know as ‘Sheeyshey’ during his days as a student at the University of Ghana.
