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The Ghana School Of Lawlessness - Part 3

Feature Article The Ghana School Of Lawlessness - Part 3
AUG 19, 2015 LISTEN

Permit me space in your credible and authoritative online platform to bring to the attention of the concerned authorities a potential act of criminality to be perpetuated on Ghanaians if proper steps are not taken to annul the yet to be published results of the recent entrance examination into the Ghana School of Law held at the University of Ghana, Legon, on the 31 st of July, 2015.

This lackadaisical attitude adopted by General Legal Council, the Board of Legal Education, the Ghana School of Law and the Independent Examinations Board (IEB), which is the latest quango to join the bandwagon, are not rendering a credible entrance route into the Ghana School of Law. This paper should have formed Part III of a series of articles am putting out to the media regarding the rot at the Ghana School of Law, but the recent entrance examination results are due for publication this week, and it would be disingenuous on my part to allow the results to be published without bringing to the public domain what transpired prior to the writing of the 2015 entrance examination.

The 2014 entrance examination question paper was leaked, and as a result, an examination that was slated to start at 9am, eventually started at around 11.15am. The Ghana School of Law claimed to have printed new questions, but some candidates were heard after the examination claiming that the “apor had landed”. This was to do with Privity of Contract, and there was a theory question on Privity of Contract in section B (question 3).

This year is no exception. How come the IEB procured past questions from one of the leading law faculties in Accra to enable them set the examination questions? A cross section of the candidates who wrote the 2015 entrance examination paper were seen openly jubilating and shouting that the, “apor has landed”. The IEB owe the good of Ghana a disclosure of the names of the three individuals who set the 2015 entrance examination questions, if those mentioned in this piece are a fabrication!. How come the Dean of the faculty of law at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) took part in setting the questions for the 2015 entrance examination? Where is the fairness? How come the father of the Deputy Dean at the GIMPA law faculty was also part of the team that set the questions?

GIMPA awards the Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree and those graduates also sit the entrance examination. Apart from this, GIMPA further organises refresher classes for candidates of the entrance examination, so this is a clear conflict of interest situation and it gives an unfair advantage to candidates who have an association with GIMPA over other ordinary candidates.

To further erode the credibility of the IEB regarding the conduct of the 2015 entrance examination into the Ghana School of Law, a couple of weeks before the examination, a criminal law lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) spent time with some students going through the criminal law question that appeared as question one in section B of the entrance examination.

This bothers on criminality and must be investigated by the security agencies. The Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) should as a matter of urgency, compel the IEB not to publish the 2015 entrance examination results whilst investigations are carried into the allegations raised in this submission!

Nana Osei Kwame Esq ([email protected]
Tel: 0504449869

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