Kumasi Campus of School of Law inaugurated
The Kumasi Campus of the Ghana School of Law was on Thursday inaugurated at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST).
Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, the Asantehene and Chancellor of the KNUST, called on Ghanaians to support the training of lawyers to help uphold the rule of law, people’s rights and the building of an orderly and civilized society.
The KNUST Campus of the School is the first to be established outside the School’s main Campus at Makola in Accra, to provide opportunity for more students to pursue legal education.
The KNUST Campus was established under the auspices of the General Legal Council and currently has a student population of 60, undergoing a two-year course in law.
The Asantehene said the establishment of the Kumasi Campus could not have come at a better time than now when many qualified students were unable to gain admission to the School of Law due to inadequate accommodation and teaching facilities.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu said he was confident that more students from the Northern sector of Ghana would now realise their dreams of becoming lawyers.
He asked authorities of the Kumasi Campus to establish effective linkages with the National and Regional Houses of Chiefs to give the students useful insight into the traditional ways of adjudicating cases.
The Asantehene pledged the support of the Asanteman and University Council to make the KNUST Campus a centre of excellence in law education.
Mrs Justice Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice and Chairperson of the General Legal Council, said the Council would play its supervisory role to ensure that it was run along professional lines.
It would have to operate strictly within the rules and regulations of the Council.
Professor William Otoo Ellis, Vice-Chancellor of the University, said he was happy that the idea of establishing the law school, mooted about four years ago, had become a reality and thanked the Council and academic board for the achievement.
He said the School would combine theoretical and practical lessons, moot courts, field trips and vacation training to enrich the training of the students.
Prof Ellis said the University would provide land for building of additional structures for the Campus.
Source: GNA