General News of Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Source: The Herald
The last 48 hours has not been the same for students and staff of the Ghana Law School following revelations made by this newspaper.
The school, Ghana’s citadel of legal education is bedeviled with serious administrative dishonesties: They are anxious to let the whole world know about the irreparable damage being done to the image of the school by people who are expected to man it.
The Herald has learnt that it is not only students and staff of the Ghana Law School who have been discussing the embarrassing revelation since the story broke but also practicing lawyers who have passed through the Ghana Law School.
“If you meet two or more people on our campus, they are discussing this embarrassing story and how people outside the school would take them. The story is the same on our Legon and KNUST campuses,” a student lamented to the paper.
Snippet of information gathered from the school indicate that the school’s management has scheduled a crisis meeting this morning among members of the examination board of the school to, as a matter of urgency, review requests put in by some 105 students for a re-mark of their examination script.
Meanwhile, the former director of the Law School who has been caught in the middle of the examination scandal captured by this paper last Monday has fired a panic text message to this reporter, threatening to take a legal action against the paper if it does not drop the story and apologize.
Mr. George Agyemang Sarpong has also proceeded to file a writ of summons at the Accra High Court, Fast Track Division suing The Herald, its managing editor, editor and news editor and asking for aggravated damages and a restriction from further making any publication about him.
He also joined the host of Joy Fm morning show, Bernard Nasara Shaibu and the Multimedia Group of Company in the suit for reviewing the story that shocked the legal fraternity.
Ironically, although Mr. Sarpong, the immediate past Director of the Ghana Law School found time and space to tout his credentials as a reputable lawyer and consultant, he made no mention of the role he presided over as the director of the School which obviously is nothing to be proud of.
Even though The Herald has raised several issues surrounding the conduction, marking and release of the 2011/2012 examination result of the school, Mr. Sarpong appeared to have singled out the issue of Kweku Budu Agyemang, said to be his nephew, whom he was said to have tried smuggling unto the published list of lawyers to be called to the bar in the 2012 Academic year.
Conspicuously missing in the suit, are the grave issues about how the names of prospective local students who sat for the entry exams, passed, interviewed and awarded admissions are later replaced with ready-pay foreign students from universities from America and United Kingdom.