By: Barbara Kumah
The Contractor working on phase one of the law village project, has appealed to the government, to support the Ghana School of Law, financially, to complete work on schedule.
The Chief Executive of JOBerg Ghana Limited, Mr Joseph Amartey, said if the State finances the project, phase one may be completed ahead of its May 2023 timeline.
The contractor says, 70% of the substructure is complete and if all goes well, the first phase of the project will be ready for use by the deadline.
Officials from GSL and a team of journalists, have visited the project site, to assess progress so far on the project.
President Akufo-Addo in May 2021, cut the sod for work to begin on the Construction of Phase One of the Law Village Project for the GSL.
It is to help to address the issues of overwhelmed and outdated facilities and traffic congestion, at the current location of the main campus of the Ghana School of Law at Makola in Accra.
The new campus among other things, will provide a state of the art one thousand, 300-seater multi-purpose conference hall; 2 lecture halls with teleconferencing facilities; two 500-seater lecture theatres; 15 lecture rooms with 40-seater capacity each; a modern library; sickbay and student lounges, amongst others. It will also house an SRC Centre, a 50-unit office facility for faculty and administration; a 50-seater restaurant; reading rooms; and general stores of the Law School.
The Law Village project, if completed, will expand access to legal education, without compromising on its quality.
The project which is being financed by the Ghana School of Law, on internally generated funds, is an approximate US$55 million, with Phase One of the project augmenting the facilities of the Accra Main Campus at US$4 million
The Director of legal education at the Ghana School of Law, Kwasi Prempeh-Eck, speaking on the orders of Parliament for the GSL to admit the affected 499 Candidates, said the legislature, must come together with all parties in legal education to address challenges facing the GSL, by so doing, giving more people the opportunity to study law.
Mr. Pempeh-Eck also said, discussions are underway to consider allowing some law facilities to run the professional law course.