Two executives from the Ghana Law School Student’s Representative Council (SRC) are set to step down due to their failure to meet the academic requirements for advancing to Part 2 of the Professional Law Course.
The Vice President of the GIMPA campus, Maxwell Adu Takyi, and the Vice President of the Kumasi campus, Collins Osei Agyemang, were unable to pass at least four of the six required courses in Part 1, as per the school’s regulations.
The law school mandates that students must pass a minimum of four courses in Part 1 to progress.
Those who fail can retake the exams, but if they fail more than two papers, they must repeat the entire Part 1.
Both Takyi and Agyemang, however, remain in Part 1 and have not advanced to Part 2. This mirrors the situation of Philemon Laar, the former SRC President in 2021, who was also asked to resign for failing to move forward in his studies.
With this precedent in place, it is widely anticipated that the school will now ask Takyi and Agyemang to resign from their SRC roles.
Concerns have arisen among students regarding the delay in addressing the issue, with some calling for swift action and fresh elections to fill the vacant positions.
One student pointed out the importance of seniority in the legal field, likening it to the structure of the military or police, and emphasized the need for the school to act as swiftly as they did with Laar’s case.
“A precedent has been established, and it must be upheld,” a lady student said.
Reports suggest that many law students from both the GIMPA and Kumasi campuses are refusing to recognize the two executives as their leaders, further dividing the SRC and undermining the authority of its current leadership.