The Law and Development Associates (LADA), a multi-disciplinary consultancy group led by Professor Raymond Atuguba, has opened its branch in Tamale.

As a subsidiary of Ghana’s leading law firm Atuguba and Associates, the Tamale branch is intended to provide quality legal services to clients including the destitute.

The renowned law Professor, Raymond Atuguba, at the official ceremony reaffirmed the LADA’s vision to promote equal rights and justice.

“We are setting an example of how this country’s future could look like. Law and Development Associates and Atuguba and Associates are not just a consulting and a law firm, they are development organizations.”

“They are incipient experimentation in this country on how the law must cease to be a set of lifeless, boring, constraining and meaningless rules. At LADA, we do not focus on what law seeks to prevent, we focus on what law should promote.”

Professor Raymond Atuguba unveiled LADA’s intention to translate Ghana’s laws into local languages to improve national pride.

“We are opening up the law office here right next to GILLBT, a renowned Bible translator when literally no law in Ghana has been translated into our local languages not just for fashion, or show or for sentimentalism, but for self actualization, community and national pride, the preservation and development of our culture through our languages that are fast disappearing.”

He stressed that “The great nations of tomorrow, China, Korea, Ethiopia, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria, have one thing in common, national languages operating side by side the English Language.”

According to him, LADA envisages taking advantage of technological advancement as means of using the law to liberate people.

“As LADA moves next year into mastering technology so that law may be used to liberate people, we envisage a day very near in the future when persons in Accra will seek legal advice from astute well-groomed lawyers and development practitioners sitting right here in Tamale.”

The Paramount Chief of Kumbungu Traditional Area, Naa Alhaji Abu Iddrisu, commended LADA for extending their services to other countries in the sub-region.

He encouraged the people of the three regions of the north to take advantage of the Tamale office in seeking legal redress.

According to him, LADA was very instrumental in formulating legal frameworks that established the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) and other state institutions.