Accra (Greater Accra), 22 Jan. '99 - Dr Ebenezer Ako-Adjei, a minister in the First Republic, and five other lawyers were yesterday honoured by the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) for their "meritorious, and untainted contribution to the legal profession in the country". Dr Ako-Adjei, 76, the only survivor of the "Big Six", received the award for statesmanship just as Dr Joseph Boakye Danquah, another of the 'Big Six' who was honoured posthumously. Mr Thomas Asamoah Totoe, 80, was honoured for his "long and distinguished legal practice", and Mr Johnny Quashie-Idun, "service to the GBA". Professor William Cornelius Ekow Daniels, 70, received an award for his "enormous contributions to legal education", and Mr Nutifafa Kuenyehia, 55, the youngest among the award recipients, was honoured for "advancing the cause of the GBA and for introducing innovative programmes and projects as well as for placing the GBA in a respectable perspective on the international legal map". This is the second time the GBA has honoured its members. The first was in 1993 when five lawyers received awards for their meritorious services to the profession and the country. In a citation, which accompanied their awards, the GBA described the six as "Giants in the legal and political history of the country, who sowed the proverbial mustard seed, under whose soothing shade and mighty branches some of us are lustily and lustrely sheltering in confidence and in the hope of following the trail they have blazed. "The six giants have left their footprints boldly and firmly in the legal and political firmament of this country which, if we fail to notice and walk, will be to our own peril". Mr Ebow Quashie, president of the GBA, said the honours conferred on the six lawyers is in fulfilment of the GBA's constitution, code of ethics and regulations, which provide that its objective is to concern itself with all matters affecting the legal profession in the country and take action as it considers expedient and necessary. Present at the ceremony were Mr Justice D.F. Annan, speaker of parliament, Dr Kwabena Agyei, leader of parliament, some members ofparliament and Supreme Court judges.