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Dafeamekpor rejects claims Government has reintroduced law entrance exams
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Majority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for South Dayi, Rockson-Nelson Etse Kwami Dafeamekpor, has dismissed claims that the government has reintroduced entrance examinations for prospective law students.
It would be recalled that MP for Old Tafo, Ekow Vincent Assafuah in a statement criticised the government over the decision to reintroduce entrance examinations for admission into the Ghana School of Law.
He described the move as a “betrayal of trust” against Ghanaian law students, arguing that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) had promised ahead of the 2024 general elections to scrap the exams.
According to him, the sudden reversal requiring candidates to sit for entrance exams scheduled for July 31, 2026 has created confusion and uncertainty.
However, in a press release dated April 30, 2026, Mr. Dafeamekpor described assertions by New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament Vincent Assafuah as false and misleading.
According to him, the newly passed Legal Education Bill has not yet become law because it is still undergoing post-passage corrections before being sent to President John Dramani Mahama for assent.
He explained that until the President assents to the bill, the current legal framework governing legal education and the Ghana School of Law remains in force.
“One cannot reintroduce what has not yet been repealed,” he stated.
The Majority Chief Whip accused Mr. Assafuah of making comments without properly verifying the facts from the Ghana School of Law.
He said public discussions on legal education should be based on facts rather than “hearsay, speculation, and politically convenient assumptions.”
Mr. Dafeamekpor further stated that the government has not introduced any new entrance examination system for law students.
According to him, there has also been no official announcement from the Ghana School of Law directing students to sit for an entrance examination scheduled for July 31, 2026.
He noted that the new legal education framework passed by Parliament is rather aimed at expanding access to legal education through accredited institutions once the bill receives presidential assent and implementation begins.
The South Dayi MP urged prospective law students and the public to ignore what he described as misinformation and unnecessary panic surrounding the issue.
He added that concerns about legal education in Ghana, including access, infrastructure, accreditation and institutional capacity, require serious national discussion instead of partisan politics.
By: Jacob Aggrey
A 24-year-old tricycle (Pragyia) rider, has been jailed three months by the Nkawie Circuit Court in the Atwima Nwabiagya South Municipality of the Ashanti Region for biting a Community Police Assistant (CPA) at Nkawie.
Abdul Aziz pleaded guilty to the charge of negligently causing harm and was convicted on his own plea.
Police Inspector Kwaku Frimpong, prosecuting told the court presided by Mr Robert Addo that, complainants in the case were officers from the Nkawie Divisional Motor Traffic and Transport Department (MTTD) of the Ghana Police Service.
He said on September 3, at about 8:40am, the complainants led by Chief Inspector Abedi Larbi, were on their official patrol duty to ensure safety at Nkawie township and met the convict, who was in-charge of a Pragya tricycle with registration number M-25-A-3722.
He explained that, after a careful inspection, it was detected that the convict was without licence and other required documents, so Alhassan Seidu, the CPA, was instructed to lead him to the office for the next action.
On their way to the office, the convict took a different direction, so the CPA directed him to take the right route to the police station, but he disobeyed and attacked the CPA, resulting in a struggle between them.
In the process the convict bit the CPA on the chest, so he shouted for help and some nearby youth rushed to the scene and helped him to arrest the convict.
In his caution statement, he admitted the offence and after further investigations he was charged and brought before the court. –GNA
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The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has urged the government to place all 54,985 candidates affected by the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) placement exercise in schools and publish the final outcome.
The party says the government must ensure that the affected candidates secure actual school places rather than merely being allowed to access the self-placement portal.
In a statement signed by the Chairman of the NPP Policy Co-ordination Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the party expressed concern about the situation facing the candidates.
The NPP said the government had announced that 53,887 of the affected candidates could use the self-placement system after initially being told that they had not qualified for secondary school.
It, however, argued that access to the portal did not guarantee that candidates would secure their preferred schools or programmes.
“Ghanaian parents and candidates will judge the resolution of the challenge by one thing only: how many of the original 54,985 are sitting in a classroom, not how many were allowed to open a website,” the statement noted.
The party said the government’s own figures showed that the country had 859,828 declared vacancies for 623,072 BECE candidates.
It explained that the main challenge was the concentration of demand in a small number of highly subscribed schools.
The NPP noted that 313,283 candidates selected Category A schools as their first choice, while those schools had 76,417 declared vacancies.
It therefore called on the government to explore ways to improve schools with available spaces, including providing teachers, laboratories and better programmes.
The party urged the government to use the 85 private schools participating in the Free SHS programme to absorb candidates who remained without placements.
The NPP further called for clarification of the rule and pass mark used for this year’s placement exercise, saying parents were entitled to know the standard before their children sat the examination.
It urged the government to take urgent action to ensure that the affected candidates were not left behind in the transition to secondary education.
By: Jacob Aggrey
