The Association of Law Students have lauded the oppositon National Democratic Congress (NDC) for giving them a message of hope and certainty concerning the challenges confront legal students.
According to them, the NDC have showed that they care more for law students than the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) who have been disappointing.
In a statement they said, “NALS notes that NDC?s succinctly put message simultaneously gives hope and certainty, and portrays the NDC as more caring about the legal education crisis, as at least having understood and committed to resolving the problem, as well as showing NDC as more interested in the horrific experience of the #RedMonday demonstration held on October 7, 2019 by law students across Ghana, better than the ruling NPP.”
“NALS concludes that the opposition NDC brings down legal education reform to a choice between „certainty now? or „hope in the future?. ? Noting that in the past, under the NDC, more law faculties were accredited and the campuses of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) were increased from one (1) to three (3), NALS recognize NDC promise is a strong, and believable promise”.
Reacting to the NPP’s promises on legal education, the association noted: “NALS is disappointed that the ruling NPP government is not eager to pursue the required short-term solution of legislation, which if passed, eradicates the same issues within the short-time. NALS did not expect the NPP not to understand the problems considering the level of engagement we had with the NPP majority in Parliament, the Office of the Chief of Staff at the Presidency, the AttorneyGeneral and Minister of Justice, and the President of the Republic of Ghana”.
“In the light of past assurances and statements, which, hitherto, amounted to outright deception (see highlights in Editors? notes below, including statements in the current session of Parliament), NALS concludes that the NPP promise is not reflective of developments, is very awkward, misleading, retrogressive, is a very weak promise, giving a cause to be very worried than excited and therefore neither reassuring nor justified to resolve this matter,” the statement added.
Source: GhanaFeed.com
