{"id":405809,"date":"2018-03-02T17:29:10","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=405809"},"modified":"2018-03-03T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-03T10:13:18","slug":"parliament-approves-law-school-entrance-exams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/parliament-approves-law-school-entrance-exams\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament approves law school entrance exams"},"content":{"rendered":"
Parliament has adopted the Subsidiary Legislation Committee\u2019s recommendations for the Legal Profession Regulations 2017 amid protests from Minority MPs.<\/p>\n
Among notable changes, the Subsidiary Legislation Committee recommended that the Ghana Legal Council should not be allowed to conduct interviews for entrants into the Ghana School of Law.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”TcuydmAJrxbpiJW7PuVmQPEQEcGM2k29″]The Committee, however, said the entrance examinations for admission into the school would continue.<\/p>\n
Despite the seeming compromise, the Minority Chief Whip, Muntaka Mubarak, said he was still in opposition to the legislation.<\/p>\n
He continued his opposition today [Friday] in Parliament and per Standing Order 113 of Parliament, a member has the right to challenge a vote and request for a head count or a division, which Mr. Muntaka wanted to do.<\/p>\n
But he\u00a0was left on his feet for about 20 minutes after being ignored by the Speaker of Parliament, Professor Mike Oquaye.<\/p>\n
Oquaye acting worse than Idi Amin,\u00a0Mobutu<\/strong><\/p>\n After proceedings,\u00a0the Minority Chief Whip voiced his displeasure to the media by describing Prof. Oquaye as a dictator and comparing him to despots like Uganda’s Idi Amin and the DR Congo’s\u00a0Mobutu\u00a0Sese Seko.<\/p>\n “I keep repeating that civil society should be interested in how the Speaker is conducting himself. It is so terrible… We have rules. As for listening to us, you listen, make your ruling and if we want to challenge your ruling, we know what to do. But to deliberately and continuously do what he is doing, I think he is the biggest threat to our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cThe way he is behaving, I think that all of us need to be very concerned and very worried about the way the Speaker is conducting himself\u2026 I doubt whether even Mobutu or even Idi Ami can be behaving the way he did. It is so shameful that Speaker continues to do this and just disregard the rules of the House.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Muntaka further maintained that more MPs were against the approval of the\u00a0Legal Profession Regulations.<\/p>\n “I am super convinced that those for ‘No’ won and we wanted to confirm that beyond any\u00a0reasonable doubt by having a headcount. If you have a head count, it puts the thing beyond doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n