The Member of Parliament for South Dayi and Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, has alleged that some individuals were admitted into the Ghana School of Law without sitting the required entrance examinations.
According to him, in a video shared on X on June 29, 2026, the revelations emerged following the work of an ad hoc committee set up by the General Legal Council, which reportedly examined concerns about access to legal education in the country.
“We got to know, even some persons that had been admitted to the law school who didn’t write the entrance exams at all. Yes, back-door admissions were happening. These are contained in official reports commissioned by the General Legal Council itself. Scandal,” he said.
Dafeamekpor further claimed that some of the beneficiaries of the alleged irregular admissions were children of senior members of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), describing the situation as unfair.
“The people who were admitted to the law school without writing the exams, some were children of senior people in the NPP. Do you understand my point? So, even at that level, they were playing politics with the school’s admission. And they were creating very feeble opportunities for the wards and family members to the detriment of fairness,” he alleged.
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Responding to criticisms by some members of the NPP of the ongoing reforms in legal education, he argued that opposition to the changes is largely driven by attempts to preserve the current system.
“…You see, the NPP in government refused to accept the reforms. Even the modicum of it, they were not interested. Because a lot of their seniors constitute themselves into that school of thought that said, we must never open up legal education to other Ghanaians,” he said.
Dafeamekpor said the ongoing reforms were necessary to expand access to legal education and reduce what he described as concentration in a few institutions, including the Ghana School of Law.
“This is a reform that is opening access to bigger education everywhere where you have an accredited faculty of law. So that when the faculty of law, University of Development Studies is accredited, for instance, I don’t have to travel from Tamale to even to Kumasi or Accra in order to become a lawyer,” he explained.
He added that broader access to legal education would help ensure fairness in the distribution of opportunities across the country.
Watch the video below:
The Ghana Legal Council Adhoc Committee findings revealed that children of some senior NPP members gained admission into the Ghana School of Law(Makola) without writing the entrance exams.
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