Ghana School of Law director must go – Lecturers pass vote of no confidence

A group of lecturers at the Ghana School of Law have questioned the competence of the Director for Legal Education at the institution, Kwasi Prempeh-Eck.

Reliable information gathered by theghanareport.com indicates that the lecturers passed a vote of no confidence against Mr Prempeh-Eck at an Academic Board meeting this year.

Multiple assessments of different lecturers suggested that the current challenges faced by the school are as a result of the failings of Mr Prempeh-Eck.

Among other reasons, the lecturers said he has been unable to come up with solutions to pertinent challenges concerning legal education.

Additionally, they cited ineffective channels of addressing grievances which have resulted in students engaging in media war and demonstrations against the institution.

Students also prefer running to the General Legal Council (GLC) for redress instead of internal structures to deal with academic affairs.

Students have been up in arms with authorities of the school due to massive failures in recent years.

Only seven per cent who wrote the 2019 entrance exams of the Ghana School of Law passed.

A total of 1,820 candidates wrote the exams in a bid to get admission to the school but only 128 passed.

Aggrieved students have been campaigning for a higher number of admissions to churn our more lawyers yearly.

A demonstration in October 2019 concerning the matter resulted in police firing teargas and water cannons at the students with 13 being arrested.

The police brutalised the demonstrating students after they insisted on presenting a petition at the Presidency to appeal to President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene.

Former President Jerry John Rawlings and other high-profile individuals condemned the action of the police and called on authorities to find a lasting solution to the problem.