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Renowned
lawyer
Maurice
Ampaw
has
spoken
candidly
about
his
difficult
relationship
with
his
late
father,
Gibson
Dokyi
Ampaw,
who
was
a
lawyer
and
a
former
Minister
of
Health
during
the
Busia
administration.
Lawyer
Ampaw
in
an
interview
on
The
Delay
Show
over
the
weekend
revealed
that
his
parents
separated
only
when
he
was
two
years
old
which
caused
a
distant
relationship
between
them.
According
to
him,
he
was
raised
by
a
single
mother
after
his
parents’
separation
and
later
moved
with
his
mother
to
Sukura
in
Accra
from
Laterbiorkorshie.
Although
his
father
was
financially
taking
care
of
them,
Maurice
Ampaw
said
he
never
had
a
relationship
with
him
as
he
met
him
three
times
only
in
his
entire
life
until
he
passed
away.
Maurice
Ampaw
noted
that
his
father
who
was
a
Minister
at
the
time
was
mostly
absent
in
his
life
which
denied
him
of
fatherly
love.
“I
didn’t
have
father
love,
I
never
lived
with
my
father.
I
saw
my
father
three
times
in
my
entire
life
before
his
death.
He
was
taking
care
of
us,
providing
financially
but
he
was
never
present
in
our
lives,”
he
lamented.
He
also
recounted
how
he
used
to
be
troublesome
and
caused
problems
for
his
father
detailing
that
his
father
once
threatened
to
have
him
arrested
by
the
police.
Maurice
recalled
the
nick
name
his
father
gave
him,
the
“bad
boy”
which
was
even
referred
to
him
in
his
father’s
will.
“He
gave
birth
to
14
children
with
three
women.
Out
of
the
14,
I’m
the
only
lawyer.
I
am
the
same
person
he
used
to
call
a
bad
boy,
I
was
very
stubborn
back
then.
I
was
a
truant
and
gave
him
troubles
so
he
even
threatened
to
have
me
arrested
by
the
police.
“So
even
in
his
will,
he
referred
to
me
as
that
bad
boy,
unfortunately,
that
bad
boy
among
his
children
is
the
only
lawyer
to
take
after
him,”
he
stated.
He
said
despite
his
troubling
character,
he
was
bequeathed
an
eight-bedroom
storey
building
in
Accra
by
his
father.
Lawyer
Ampaw
further
described
his
father
as
a
radical
yet
exceptional
lawyer
who
was
highly
regarded
in
Akyem
Abuakwa
and
Koforidua
because
he
never
lost
a
case
in
his
11
years
of
legal
practice.