Wife of Prof Joshua Alabi, Professor Goski Alabi has revealed why she did not become a lawyer after many years in the lecture room, bringing back the debate by the current government to reset the institution.
According to the academic, she previously intended to study law by getting admission to the Ghana School of Law (GSL), Makola, but she could not fulfill this dream due to circumstance beyond her control.
In a rare interview recently, the lecturer sadly revealed that, she could not become a lawyer as she had wished because she was married to the politician and a bigwig of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Incidentally, this occurred the same period the NDC and John Dramani Mahama lost the 2016 general election.
The University for Professional Studies-Accra (UPS-A), lecturer said the news of her not getting admission was first predicted by her husband.
This was after she attended the interview as an aspiring law student and briefed her husband that during the interview session, she was asked who she was to him.
She said immediately she told him, she informed them that she was his wife with a broad smile, her husband handed her the bad news, telling her that she was not going to get the admission she so desired.
True to his words, Prof Goski Alabi said she never got the admission to pursue her dream career.
“I had wanted to pursue law, I tried. So I wrote the law exams, I was invited for the interview, I went for that interview at the Law School and then during the interview I was asked how are you related to Honourable Joshua Alabi?
I said he is my husband with a very broad smile. I was happy. I came home and my husband asked about my experience at that time the NDC had lost the election ….He said to me what did you tell them? I said I told them you are my husband and he said one out of ten you aren’t going to enter into the Law School and I didn’t not.”
The story of Prof Goski Alabi has been told differently by many people who tried to enter into the Law School. Because of the monopoly the School enjoys, they are accused of often choosing and picking who they like.
They are accused of using their discretion in determining who should study law or not. Many, have in the past clamour for successive governments to break this monopoly which is denying many people with the desire and aspiration to study law the opportunity.
In line with this perception and calls the current government has begun the process to ensure the monopoly is finally broken.
In May this year, the Majority Chief Whip, Rockson Dafeamekpor, announced that the Legal Education Bill, aimed at decentralizing legal education, will be moved under a certificate of urgency in Parliament.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the South Dayi constituency, speaking on PM Express on Joy News channel, emphasized the urgency of reforming the country’s legal education system, describing it as a key political promise that cannot be delayed.
“We waged this war from about 2018 when intake to the law school became acrimonious, contentious, and eventually corrupted”.
Under the new legislation, universities with accredited LLB programmes will be licensed to provide professional legal training, enabling them to compete with the Ghana School of Law.
By Gifty Boateng