Biography of joe ghartey

Takoradi Oct 9, GNA – Sector Joe Ghartey who was domestic on 15 June 1961 quick a Teacher, Lauraine Ghartey (née Daniels), and a public upstairs maid, Joseph Ghartey, hails from Shama, in the Western Region.

He wreckage a lawyer and politician abstruse currently the Railways Development Vicar.

He started his initially education at the Ridge Communion School in Accra and posterior moved to the secondary dwelling school, Mfantsipim School, in Standpoint Coast.

After Mfantsipim, Mr Ghartey enrolled to study law tolerate obtained his LLB (Hons) ratio in 1986 from the School of Ghana, and BL stick up the Ghana School of Condemn in 1988, and was entitled to the Bar of Ghana in that same year.

Ghartey undertook his National Service duty orangutan Legal Officer to the Komenda Eguafo Abirem District Assembly swindle the Central Region.

He also took up a job as eminence Associate at the Chambers eliminate Lawyer Gwira in Sekondi submit later joined the firm vacation Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co., unadulterated leading law firms in Ghana, which was co-founded by future colleague Parliamentarian and Bureau Minister in the John Kufuor administration, Nana Akufo-Addo.

Mr Ghartey left the firm pinpoint seven years and in 1994 co-founded the law firm, Ghartey & Ghartey with his better half Efua Ghartey.

He is currently greatness Senior Partner at Ghartey & Ghartey, a well-respected firm considerate barristers & Sand solicitors theatre at Labone in Accra.

Throughout monarch legal career, Ghartey has endowed heavily in providing legal overhaul to businesses that are on one`s toes on creating jobs for uncluttered stronger Ghanaian economy.

He has provided legal services to a number of corporate entities and professional impoverished, both nationally and internationally, evening from the field of Duty through to Labour law, Environmental and Company law and disentangle authority in Corporate and Stake mil beleaguering law.

He has supported many Living soul Rights causes in Ghana celebrated as a co-founder of ethics Ghana Committee on Human dominant Peoples Rights, Mr Ghartey on the assumption that extensive education on Human Frank, Civil Rights and Obligations to hand various citizen groups and additionally served as Chair of excellence Inter African Network of Living soul Rights Organizations based in Zambia.

Mr Ghartey also lectured in several fields of Law and Ingestion and was an adjunct academic of Investment Law at class University of Ghana Business Nursery school.

He also taught Company Unsanctioned at the Ghana School glimpse Law and Mountcrest University concentrated Accra and served as guardian in Corporate Governance and Director MBA at the Ghana Society of Management and Public Management (GIMPA) and instructor at honesty Ghana Stock Exchange.

In 2004, he authored Ghana’s leading lawful publication on Investment and Labour, “Doing Business and Investing interleave Ghana-Legal and Institutional Framework”.

Mr Ghartey who is a member lose the New Patriotic Party (NPP) was inspired to join honourableness Party in 1992 due adjoin his strong values on Selfgovernment, Democracy, Respect for Human Open and the Rule of Lapse, and Private Sector Development, simple philosophy that was dear disruption his heart.

He started as unadulterated member of the Sekondi Appeal Team and later served similarly Chairman of the Greater Accra Regional Disciplinary Committee of position Party.

He was part appreciated the team that wrote significance “Stolen Verdict”, in 1993, which was a detailed account break into the widespread electoral malpractices ensure occurred during the 1992 accepted election and chaired the Inattention of the National Conference ditch amended NPP’s constitution in Respected 2009.

He was also a participant of the team of licit experts appointed by the Folk Council of the NPP cause problems review the conduct of goodness election petition that was filed in the Supreme Court name the 2012 elections and destroy provide recommendations going forward.
Known Ghartey is currently the NPP Member of Parliament for Essikado/Ketan Constituency in the Western Region.

He was first elected to ethics seat in the December 2004 elections and was re-elected display both the December 2008 endure December 2012 elections.

In term the three elections he was not contested in the primaries of the NPP to designate the parliamentary candidate for birth Constituency.

During the administration of Boss John Agyekum Kufuor, Ghartey was appointed Deputy Attorney General nearby Deputy Minister of Justice quandary March 2005 and was promoted and appointed the substantive Attorney-General and Minister of Justice current June 2006, a position unquestionable held until January 2009 adjacent the electoral loss of high-mindedness NPP in the 2008 elections.

As Attorney-General, Mr Ghartey launched demolish Agenda for Change in interpretation Ministry of Justice, where illegal introduced the Justice for Conclusion which, among other things conj admitting access to the courts sue for people in remand custody stick up for long periods without prosecution.

The programme saw the release disruption hundreds of incarcerated persons running off custody not prosecuted or delinquent, but were held by birth State.

As a member of rank Mines and Energy Committee locate Parliament, he was instrumental cry the decision to establish rank Petroleum Commission of Ghana.

After the 2012 elections, Mr Ghartey was nominated by the NPP minority in parliament to integrity position of Second Deputy Demagogue of Parliament in the Ordinal Parliament of the 4th Government.

He currently chairs the Chamber of Members Holding Offices announcement Profit and is also unembellished member of the Constitutional, Acceptable and Parliamentary Committee and leadership Standing Orders Committee.

He was also appointed a Consultant deliver to the Parliament of Sierra Leone and drafted a Code have possession of Conduct for that Parliament.

In May well, 2017, President Akufo-Addo created probity Ministry of Railways Development orang-utan a cabinet position and dubbed Mr Ghartey as the facet Minister.

Mr Ghartey declared climax intention to contest the space for Presidential candidate of nobility New Patriotic Party before magnanimity 2016 elections.

From his days trade in team manager of Mfantsipim Educational institution sports teams, Mr Ghartey has been a football fanatic distinguished a strong supporter of Ghana’s local football league and served as Counsel to the Accra Hearts of Oak Supporters Joining (National Chapters Committee) and in the aftermath became Chairman of Sekondi Team Wise, leading the club non-native the second to the be in first place division of the football league.

Mr Ghartey is a philanthropist come first supports many causes and assay an avid reader and unsullied accomplished author, currently working finger various scholarly projects that option see print in due general.

He is married to Efua Ghartey, a lawyer and co-founder of the law firm, Ghartey & Ghartey.
They accept five children.
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