How 10-mile walks for basic education birthed a 50-year legal career for Justice Korbieh

Long before he donned the judicial robes of the Court of Appeal or occupied a seat in Parliament, retired Justice Francis Gyafiiry Korbieh was simply a young boy in the Upper West Region, trekking 10 miles on foot just to acquire a basic primary education." A grueling weekly trek for knowledge With no primary school in his immediate community, the young Korbieh had to rely on a weekly boarding arrangement at his school in Jirapa."It was a novelty at the time because in our part of the country, nobody ever went to secondary school from Primary Six," he noted.