President John Evans Atta Mills on Tuesday complimented Professor Nicholas Joseph Liverpool, President of the Dominican Republic, for his meritorious role in the development of Ghana's human resources in the late 1960s.

The Don taught at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ghana, Legon, from 1965 to 1967 and President Mills happened to be one of his former students.

Some of his former students were Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, former Minister for Finance and Economic Planning and the late Prof. Justice Tawia Modibo Ocran, a former judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana.

Prof. Liverpool, who is in Ghana to participate in the centenary birthday celebration of Bishop Joseph Bowers, described as the first black Catholic Archbishop of Accra, paid a courtesy call on President Mills at the Osu Castle.

"It is a great pleasure to have you in my office and Ghana," President Mills said.

He expressed gratitude to Prof. Liverpool for his role in the development of the nation's human resources during his teaching assignment at Legon.

President Mills welcomed the Dominican President and said "Ghana is your home" and added that Prof. Liverpool's service has been rewarded nicely by his election as the President by his people.

On the role of Bishop Bowers, who is also a native of the Caribbean Island, President Mills said the cleric contributed a lot to the spiritual, moral and academic development of many Ghanaians and also touched many lives.

President Liverpool said Bishop Bowers once stayed in his grandmother's house.

Source: GNA