by the then president, Kwame Nkrumah in 1962. He was dismissed together with Kofi Adumua Bossman and Edward Akufo-Addo on 2 March 1964 by the then president of Ghana; Kwame Nkrumah for protesting the dismissal of Sir. Kobina Arku Korsah and William Bedford Van Lare following the acquittal of Tawia Adamafio and others of treason charges. In 1969, he was a speaker of the constituent assembly, which drew the constitution of the second republic. Following the outcome of the 1978 Ghanaian governmental referendum he risked detention that year by filing writs of habeas corpus at the Sekondi High Court, that is; he demanded that the Supreme Military Council bring B. J. Da Rocha and K. A. Gbedemah to court and show valid reasons for their detention. Personal life He was married to Mrs. Dinah Blay. He was the father of the Ghanaian international civil servant, diplomat and the first female chancellor of the University of Ghana, Mary Chinery-Hesse, and Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi, former High Commissioner of Ghana to Sierra Leone and currently Director General of Ghana Aids Commission. His hobbies were lawn tennis, cricket, golf and football. Death He died on 5 December 1979 at Sekondi. He was buried at his hometown; Esiama on 22 December 1979. See also List of judges of the Supreme Court of Ghana Supreme Court of Ghana References 1901 births 1979 deaths Akan people 20th-century Ghanaian judges Justices of the Supreme Court of Ghana Alumni of the University of London Ghanaian Methodists