Godfred Yeboah Dame (born 5 June 1979) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. He is a member of the

New Patriotic Party The New Patriotic Party (NPP; ) is a Centre-right politics, centre-right and Liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative political party in Ghana. Since the democratisation of Ghana in 1992, it has been one of the two dominant parties in Ghanaian ...

. He was previously the deputy

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and Minister of Justice.

Early life and education

Dame was born on 5 June 1979 and hails from the Bono region. He received his secondary school education at the

Adisadel College Adisadel College, popularly known as "Adisco", is an Anglican boys' boarding school in Cape Coast, Ghana. It was established by Rt. Rev. Nathaniel T Hamlyn in 1910. Adisadel College is one of the oldest Senior high school, secondary schools in ...

in Cape Coast, Central region from 1989 to 1996. He attended the

University of Ghana The University of Ghana is a public university located in Accra, Ghana. It is the oldest public university in the country. The university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold Coast in the British colony of the Gold Coast ...

where he completed with a Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) in 2001. He moved to the

Ghana School of Law The Ghana School of Law (GSL) is an educational institution in Ghana for training lawyers. The school is the only institution responsible for training for law graduates in the Professional Law Course (PLC) programme and the Post-Call Law Course. ...

where he obtained his professional certificate to practice law and was called to the

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Bar in 2003. He worked as private legal practitioner before entering politics.

Politics

Dame is a member of the

. In March 2017, he was appointed by President Akufo-Addo to serve as deputy Attorney General and deputy Minister of Justice. On 21 January 2021, after his party retained power in the December 2020 election, he was elevated to the position of substantive Attorney General and Minister of Justice to replace

Gloria Akuffo Gloria Akuffo (born 31 December 1954) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician who served as the Attorney General of Ghana and Minister for Justice from 2017 until 2021. She also served as Deputy Attorney General and Aviation Minister in the John Kuf ...

Personal life

Dame, a Christian, is married to Dr. Joycelyn Akosua Assimeng Dame, a paediatric infectious disease specialist. They have two children.

References

Living people 1979 births New Patriotic Party politicians Alumni of Adisadel College University of Ghana alumni Ghana School of Law alumni 21st-century Ghanaian lawyers Attorneys general of Ghana {{Ghana-politician-stub