Mass Law students’ failure: Rawlings trying to intimidate GLC – Maurice Ampaw

Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has come to the defence of the General Legal Council (GLC), after former President Rawlings recently criticised for deliberately limiting access to legal education to a select few.

According to Maurice Ampaw, Rawlings’s criticism was unfair, an attempt to intimidate the GLC and that he should keep quiet on the matter.

The former President also took a swipe at the security agencies for applying ferine force during a demonstration by the National Association of Law Students.

“…Most of the students because of social media they don’t learn…look at the time we sleep…most of the students because of broken heart; they are married so they don’t get time to learn, most of them are commercially stressed so they can’t learn…most of them are doing their courses part-time …So the students are not learning” Dr Ampaw told Boamah Darko,host of ‘Maakye’ on Accra-based Hot 93.9FM monitored by MyNewsGh.com

Former President Rawlings recently criticised the GLC for deliberately denying many people access to professional legal education. He detailed how one of his daughters was denied entry into the Ghana School of Law due to the inexplicable failure of many who sought to go to law school.

But Dr Ampaw has argued that the GLC headed by the Chief Justice is acting fairly and Rawlings’s chastisement smacks of attempts to intimidate the GLC.

“Rawlings should shut up…Yes, Rawlings should shut up for attacking the Ghana Legal Council… he is being unfair to them –he is making serious allegations against them that they should be held responsible and then the failure of the students is a fraud being committed against the students… my brother,leave the Ghana Legal Council and the Chief Justice alone…the Legal council and the Chief Justice, nobody can intimidate them in this Country,” he fumed.

Many have taken up the GLC for failing students en masse in an attempt to maintain high quality standards and not to mass produce lawyers.

Aggrieved persons recently took to the streets to demonstrate against the actions of the GLC, mainly the due to the outcome of the law school entrance exam who saw only 128 students out of 1820 qualify for the Ghana School of Law this year.

Dr Ampaw seems to be part of a very tiny minority that have justified the actions of what many critics call the “obsolete” GLC