By Iddi Yire, GNA
Accra, May 11, GNA – President John Dramani Mahama in fulfillment of his election 2024 campaign promise has signed the Legal Education Bill into Law to expand Legal Education.
The Act seeks to establish the Council for Legal Education and Training to regulate professional legal education in Ghana and provide the curriculum and standards for legal education.
The Act would also break the monopoly of the Ghana School of Law (GSL) over professional legal education.
In addition, the President assent to two new Bills – Governance Advisory Council Bill and Value for Money Office Bill.
The Governance Advisory Council Act would ensure the establishment of an independent body to promote accountability and to strengthen the fight against corruption.
The Value for Money Office Act aims to address persistent challenges including inflated contracts, abandoned projects, cost overruns, and wasteful public expenditure.
President Mahama said the Legal Education Act would regulate legal education and ensure the highest standards in terms of legal education.
He noted that it would also open the space for more opportunities for legal education in Ghana.
He noted that the Legal Education Act had been one that many aspiring lawyers had been looking up to.
President Mahama said the passage of the Governance Advisory Council Act was in fulfillment of his campaign promise to promote Good Governance and Trust in public office.
The President said the Value for Money Office Act would help promote accountability and that the Office would review procurement and make sure that Ghana gets value for money, and the issue of inflation contracts.
He said sourced contracts would go to the Value for Money Office whilst all contracts above a certain value would go to the Value for Money Office.
This, the President said was to ensure that Ghana was getting value for every cedi that they spend.
Present at the signing ceremony were Dominic Akrutinga Ayine, the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice; Madam Marietta Agyeiwaa Brew, Legal Advisor to the President and Mr Ebenezer Ahumah Djietror, the Clerk to Parliament.
The rest were Mr Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff at the Presidency; Mrs Joyce Bawa Mogtari, the Special Aide to the President and Presidential Advisor; Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, the Finance Minister, Mr Felix Kwakye Ofosu, the Presidential Spokesman and Minister of State in-charge of Government Communications and Mr Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, the Majority Chief Whip.
GNA
Edited by Linda Asante Agyei
May 11 2026