Former President John Dramani Mahama has  paid a glowing tribute to the late former justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana, Justice V.C.R.A.C. Crabbe.

Mr Mahama described Justice Crabbe as a man who excelled in law and legislative practice in Ghana and Africa at large.

Mr Crabbe died on Friday, 7 September 2018 after a short illness.

He was 95.

He was a former Professor of Law at the University of West Indies and a Professor of Law at Mountcrest University.

Mr Mahama wrote on Facebook that: “Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe has passed. As children, we were besotted with his name (VCRAC).

“As adults we stand in awe and respect at his service to Ghana and Africa in the area of law and legislative practice.

“He will be remembered, especially for heading the Constituent Assembly that drafted the 1979 Constitution.”

Mr Crabbe was Special Commissioner to the 1968 Constitutional Commission; Legislative Draftsmen to the 1969 Constituent Assembly which drafted the 1969 Constitution of Ghana.

He was the Chairman of the 1979 Constituent Assembly and drafted the 1979 Constitution of Ghana.

He worked with the Constitutional Review Commission of Kenya and was Leader of the group of Draftspersons who drafted the Kenya Constitution.

He did work the Zambian Constitutional Commission for the drafting of the Zambian Constitution as well with the Fiajoe Review Commission for the review of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.

He was elected a fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences and delivered an inaugural lecture on 15 March 2017 on the theme: The Philosophy of Man.