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Law students were deliberately failed - Muntaka

The Minority Chief Whip in Parliament thinks the situation is a ploy by some people to make the studying of law a preserve of a privileged few.

Muntaka said, "If you look at the essence for which that school was established, you’ll see that we’ve moved far away from the objective that is why we in Parliament will do as much as we can to bring them back to track. The whole system needs to be looked at. It has over lived its usefulness when it was started, then they were very few, today the numbers are growing and we need to be proactive and change the way we’re thinking.”

There has been an uproar since the news broke yesterday that over 80% of students who sat for the 2017 Ghana Bar exams failed.

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This development led to a statement by the President of the Law Students Association, Sammy Gyamfi describing the examination board as being unfair.

Gyamfi said, "It is very disheartening and dispiriting for students who have gone through a year of academic work to be subjected to such injustice. We believe that the Independent Examination Board has not been diligent in its working as far as the marking of our scripts is concerned, the integrity of the whole results has been compromised. We think that due process was not followed and we think that the results which was published is not the true reflection of the performance of students and we reject it totally.”

The student body has therefore called on the scrapping of the exams council as well as the entrance exams required to gain admission into the Ghana Law School.

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