MPs Call For Probe Into Fraudulent Admissions At Ghana Law School

South Dayi Member of Parliament, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has written to the Chief Justice demanding full disclosure on the fraudulent unlawful admission of over 200 students into the Ghana School of Law (GLS) last year.

In what is the latest exposé of corrupt practices at Ghana’s monopolistic law school, Dafeamekpor questioned why the fact-finding committee set up by the General Legal Council (GLC), chaired by the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah to investigate the matter has kept mum about it.

“The GLC is totally discredited. We should be seeing resignations by now if members had shame and conscience,” US-based Ghanaian law professor, Kwaku Azar who has been crusading against the rotten structures at the GLS noted in a social media post.

The GLS is being viewed as an institutionalised scam, where thousands of law students are admitted every year but only a quarter of them are allowed to be called to the bar in a final examination that has been dogged with corrupt marking schemes.

For instance, this year, just 790 out of more than 2,000 students who wrote the entrance examination gained admission into the Ghana School of Law. The GLS issued conflicting statements about the actual scores of these students.

MrDafeamekpor, in the letter to the Council, said some students who took the exam last year and should not have been admitted were nonetheless, admitted.