The Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has announced that the Legal Education Bill, aimed at decentralising legal education in Ghana, will be moved under a certificate of urgency in Parliament.
The South Dayi MP, speaking on Joy News' PM Express on Tuesday, May 27, emphasized the urgency of reforming the country's legal education system, describing it as a key political promise that cannot be delayed.
The proposed bill seeks to break the monopoly of the Ghana School of Law, commonly known as Makola, by allowing accredited university law faculties to train lawyers and conduct professional bar exams.
Dafeamekpor, who doubles as a lawyer, highlighted systemic issues in the current legal education framework, particularly the contentious and allegedly corrupted admissions process at the Ghana School of Law. "We waged this war from about 2018 when intake to the law school became acrimonious, contentious, and eventually corrupted," he stated.
