AG Courts Anarchy, Dare Parliament It Has No Power Over Crooked Ghana Law School

The increasingly controversial Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has rejected the Ghanaian Parliament’s resolution for the General Legal Council (GLC) to admit some 499 law students who were denied admission into the Ghana School of Law (GLS) despite making the 50 percent pass mark.

In a statement to Parliament on Monday, November 1, the AG said Parliament is “devoid of the power through the use of Parliamentary resolutions, to control the process of admission into the Ghana School of Law. The mode of exercising legislative power enshrined in article 106 of the Constitution does not admit resolutions.”

Quoting copiously from the relevant legislation, the AG stated: “In my respectful opinion, this provision underscores the capacity of the Executive, not the Legislature, through the Minister responsible for the General Legal Council, i.e. the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, to direct and advise the Council on major matters of national importance.”

Parliament on Friday passed a resolution for the GLC to compel the GLS to admit the 499 students who sat for the 2021 entrance exams and passed in accordance with the marking scheme as advertised.

The students had however been failed after the Law School had varied the marking scheme, a thing that is seen as a deliberate machination to prevent many people from gaining admission into Law School.

The motion had been moved by deputy minority whip Ahmed Ibrahim, fine-tuned by the first deputy speaker who was presiding Joseph Osei-Owusu and repeated by Effutu MP and deputy majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin.