A former President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Sam Okudzeto has stated that Parliament has no power under the country’s constitution to give directives to the General Legal Council (GLC).
According to Sam Okudzeto, the constitution of the country does not allow Parliament to give order to the General Legal Council.
He averred that the General Legal Council (GLC) is established under law. Where in the law is the power given to Parliament to give directives to the General Legal Council.
Sam Okudzeto disagreed with the directive given by Parliament.
“You [Parliament] don’t have any such authority or power…If you look at the constitution, it’s there black and white; the president and Parliament, nobody can tell them [Judiciary] what to do,” Sam Okudzeto told Asaase radio.
But the Parliament on Friday (29 October) passed a resolution to compel the General Legal Council (GLC) to admit all the 499 aggrieved law students who obtained at least 50% in the entrance exams but had been denied admission to the Ghana School of Law.
The resolution received bipartisan support after deputy majority leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin and deputy minority leader James Avedzi made a case for the resolution to be passed.
Source: Mybrytfmonline/Solomon Nartey
