MASS
FAILURE AT GHANA SCHOOL OF LAW – WHOSE FAILURE?
‘All persons shall have the right to equal
educational opportunities and facilities...’
-Article
25(1) of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.
This world began with just one person,
called Adam. Later his Maker realized it was not good for him to live alone. So
Eve was also created to help Adam administer the world. Today, about 7.5
billion people have been added to assist in the prudent and efficient
administration of this world.
Yet there is a school of thought in Ghana’s
legal fraternity that still opines that what was done by ‘5 people’ in 1960 in
Ghana can be done by ‘9 people’ in 2019. Because of this the mass failures of
candidates at Ghana School of Law is tolerated and even cherished by adherents
of what could be referred to as the ‘gatekeeping’ school of thought, irrespective of multitudes of incessant
legitimate concerns and suggestions expressed by many others.
Meanwhile plethora of cases are rotting in
our courtrooms due to inadequate judges, magistrates and lawyers. Besides, most
government institutions, organisations and communities in Ghana are legally
malnourished due to inadequate lawyers.
Who is failing massively? The candidates,
the Ghana School of Law or the people of Ghana? Gatekeeping measures are not benchmark
for assessing quality legal education in the world. Where is the right to equal educational
opportunities and facilities in Ghana? Everything indeed rises and falls on
leadership. It is not the candidates who are failing massively, it is legal
education in Ghana and Ghana as a nation. This is a call on the true sons and
daughters of Ghana to arise; be awake, alive and act now!
Richard
Obeng Mensah, author
of Persecutions are Promotions
The writer is a blogger,
legal academic, life and leadership coach,
and a private legal
practitioner in Ghana.
Blog:
www.richard-obeng-mensah.blogspot.com
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© 26 September 2019.
