First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo is 66 years today. She was born on 12 March 1951.
President Nana Akufo-Addo took to twitter to wish his wife a happy anniversary.
Happy birthday to my beloved Rebecca
She is the daughter of judge Jacob Hackenburg Griffiths-Randolph, Ghana’s Speaker of Parliament in the Third Republic and Frances Phillipina Griffiths-Randolph (nee Mann).
She attended the Achimota Primary School and continued at the Wesley Grammar School in Accra and then to the Government Secretarial School where she qualified as a Secretary.
She worked at the Merchant Bank in Ghana before relocating to the United Kingdom. She qualified as a legal secretary in the United Kingdom and worked for Clifford Chance and Ashurst Morris Crisp both multinational law firms.
Together with the President, the couple have five daughters and five grandchildren.
Rebecca Naa Okaikor Akufo-Addo and her husband are both staunch members of the Accra Ridge Church and are committed Christians.
Her hobbies include floristry, interior decoration and reading. She loves children and is the patron of Infanta Malaria, a charity dedicated to the prevention of Malaria in children.
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
