Francis Kpegah

Francis Yaonasu Kpegah is a retired Ghanaian judge who was on the Supreme Court of Ghana between 1993 and 2008. He was appointed to the Supreme Court on 6 January 1993.[1] He acted as the Chief Justice of Ghana following the death of George Kingsley Acquah on 25 March 2007[2] until the appointment of Georgina Theodora Wood on 15 June 2007 as the new Chief Justice.[3]

In 2013, he caused a lot of excitement in Ghana when he sued Nana Akufo-Addo, the Presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for impersonation.[4] His suit sought the High Court to declare that Nana Akufo-Addo was never called to the Ghana Bar and that his private law firm was thus also illegal.[5] This upset many in the NPP including the former President John Kufuor.[6] He was also subjected to various attacks through the media[7] to which he responded that he would like Nana Akufo-Addo to go through the court process in answering back.[8]