Parliament Orders Dubious Ghana Law School To Admit 499 Wrongfully Failed Students

Parliament has passed a resolution to make the General Legal Council compel the Ghana Law School to admit the 499 students who wrote the 2021 entrance exams but were failed after the school dubiously varied their marking scheme when they realized the students crossed the 50% pass mark.

The parliamentary resolution follows a motion moved by Deputy Minority Whip, Ibrahim Ahmed, and seconded by Deputy Majority Leader, Alexander Afenyo Markins.

The session had been presided over by Deputy Speaker, Joseph Osei Wusu.

The 499 students are already in court suing the General Legal Council and the Attorney General over the issue.

They had sat the exams and passed in accordance with the marking scheme that had earlier been advertised. However, the Law School would later arbitrarily vary the marking scheme to fail them while selectively admitted through the backdoor, other students who clearly failed.

In Parliament, the question was put for adoption by the Deputy Speaker, who later ordered the Attorney General Godfred Dame to ensure the resolution is carried through by the Ghana Law School.

Meanwhile, the Human Rights division of the Accra High Court has adjourned the case of the failed LLB students.

The court presided over by Justice Nicholas Mensah Abodakpi, adjourned to 9, November 2021 after the Attorney General requested for a short adjournment to file certain processes.

When the case, “Daniel Sackey and 142 others vs the General Legal Council” was called, Patricia Ayirebe Acquah, Assistant State Attorney told the court that, she has spoken to all the parties and had agreed to a short date.

Lawyer of the Applicant Martin Kpebu, and Nana Yaw Ntrekwah for the General Legal Council, all corroborated that position.