Ghana School of Law wants 25% govt demand from IGF waived

The Director of the Ghana School of Law, Barima Yaw Kodie Oppong, has appealed to the government to waive the requirement for the school to give 25% of its internally generated funds to the government.

This appeal was made at the induction of the 2023 batch of Part 1 students of the Ghana School of Law.

According to him, this practice stifles the ability of the School to expand infrastructure to accommodate students.

Even though the School has been able to get the President to reduce the quota from 35% to 25%, the school is, however, appealing to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin to see a total waiver of this requirement.

Addressing the gathering at the induction ceremony, the director of the School, Barima Yaw Kodie Oppong, noted that the removal of such a requirement will be key to massive infrastructure expansion for the various campuses including Makola.

“Honorable if you are surprised that since 1982 when you left the school, these buildings that accommodated you and your friends are virtually seeing very little or significant expansion, it is all because the government shares our money with us and hardly may see any contribution for the expansion.”

He added, “So if you can get your good friend the president to cause the part of it to be reduced from 34 percent to 25 percent, we have also made a request and I believe is currently before parliament for a complete waiver of the 25 percent  so that before you leave and at the end of induction which may be your last year, you’ll see massive construction going on for infrastructure expansion.”

Meanwhile, the speaker of parliament Alban Bagbin has promised to give President Akufo-Addo sleepless nights if he fails to honour a promise said to have been made to support the move to waive the requirement for the government to retain a quota of Ghana School of Law’s internally generated fund.

He said, “Since His Excellency the President has pledged to support the school, he knows me very well, he’ll have a sleepless night if he doesn’t honour that pledge. I’ll be on him to make sure that we give the Law school, not the one that was established as far back as 1959 but one that is befitting the status of the 21st century. And the first thing I will personally do is ensure that I give you a better public address system, not what we are experiencing today.”

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