The Chief Justice has denied a plea from South Dayi MP Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor to divulge information of an investigation into illegal admissions to the Ghana School of Law.
Kwasi Anin-Yeboah claimed that he was not authorized to disclose the materials by the General Legal Council (GLC), which he heads.
“I am unfortunately not authorized by the Council to release the requested documents relating to the ongoing investigation. The constituted committee is yet to report to the Council on any progress to date.”
In a letter to the Chief Justice, the MP said that it had come to his information that the (GLC) had formed a fact-finding committee, headed by the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, to examine the subject.
Admission into the sole school operating the professional legal course is a sensitive topic since every year, hundreds of candidates fail the entrance exams.
Only 790 of the almost 2,000 candidates who took the test this year were admitted to the Ghana School of Law.
However, after weeks of protest and legal action, 499 others who insisted on passing have been allowed admittance.
In his letter to the Council, Mr. Dafeamekpor said that several students who sat the test last year and should not have been accepted were still admitted.
The MP said that he is aware that the committee entrusted with investigating the situation was led by the departing President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Anthony Forson Jnr.
The committee is alleged to have questioned and received replies from the school’s Acting Director, Registrar, and Deputy Registrar.
The MP demanded that all of these records be made accessible to him, claiming that Ghana’s constitution and the Right to Information Law empower him to do so.
He demanded that these papers be sent to him within seven days.
The Chief Justice has said that he would forward the issue to the GLC for consideration at its next meeting.
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SOURCE: myjoyonline
