Prof Asare totally distorts why Akufo-Addo has no law degree (Part 1)

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Francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Thanks Prof Lungu.

I have already read Profs. Asare's and Bokor's.

I look forward to the subsequent installment(s).

This debate is really getting interesting.

Thanks Prof Lungu.

I have already read Profs. Asare's and Bokor's.

I look forward to the subsequent installment(s).

This debate is really getting interesting.
Efo Dagadu 7 years ago

This is getting out of hand with these hopeless people with nothing meaningful to show with their book long degrees.........Nana Addo has no qualification but practising law in Ghana. What does that tell about Ghanaians.....f ...
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This is getting out of hand with these hopeless people with nothing meaningful to show with their book long degrees.........Nana Addo has no qualification but practising law in Ghana. What does that tell about Ghanaians.....fools. Find something better to do and stop eating Nana Addo droppings. Nkwaseafuo............
David 7 years ago

Dagadu, oh you now agreed that your demi- god Akufo Addo is a complete fraud? You are rather licking his smelling mucus. Do you remember Kwabena Agyepong challenging the vice president of his CV? And do you remember what the ...
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Dagadu, oh you now agreed that your demi- god Akufo Addo is a complete fraud? You are rather licking his smelling mucus. Do you remember Kwabena Agyepong challenging the vice president of his CV? And do you remember what the vice did? Think before you spit nonsense. You must be an illiterate or a primary school dropout not to have known that, it is criminal for a man seeking to be president of this country, lying about his qualifications. Dagadu, go lick Akufo Addo's anus. The truth is that, your demi-god, Akufo Addo, is a big con man and a big fraudster. Ghanaians dare him to come out once and for all. Tu eres hijo de puta madre. Think before you insult somebody.
Asare 7 years ago

And to you this David "tonterias." even if Akuffo Addo himself comes out to, as you say, clarify what is already clear to reasonable minds,fixed opinionated minds like yours will still not be satisfied. Akuffo Addo is a quali ...
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And to you this David "tonterias." even if Akuffo Addo himself comes out to, as you say, clarify what is already clear to reasonable minds,fixed opinionated minds like yours will still not be satisfied. Akuffo Addo is a qualified Lawyer under the apprenticeship method from the Inns of Court. That is just about the best even today. Interestingly the legal brains in Ghana have ever questioned Nana Addo's qualification as a lawyer.its rather mainly non lawyers,some with PhD's in Dondology and worthless courses and who have nothing better to offer except to play on the minds of ignorantly biased political enemigos that won't allow this matter to rest.
SARPONG 7 years ago

Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of fraud. Akuffo Addo said he has lost his law certificate, not degree.

We all know he went to train as a lawyer at Middle Temple Inn where law certificate are issued. Unles ...
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Your problem is you don't understand the meaning of fraud. Akuffo Addo said he has lost his law certificate, not degree.

We all know he went to train as a lawyer at Middle Temple Inn where law certificate are issued. Unless somebody come out and show that Akuffo Addo did not go to the Middle Temple Inn to train as a lawyer which you can easily do, calling him a fraud shows how hollow you are.

President Mahama is referred to as a Communication Expert trained in Russia, does he have a Communication degree? NO, he has a communication certificate from that Russia institution. You all need to get a life.

Nana Akuffo Addo have a better educational CV than Mahama. Both have third class degrees from University of Ghana, though Nana got his in Economics and Mahama in History. Mahama "A" level results did not even qualified him to study Economics but rather History.
ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

sarpong , have you lost your sensibility, or you are just talking any how because of politics?
yes Mahama have a certificate from Russia as a communication expert, and can go to the institution which issued him that for rep ...
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sarpong , have you lost your sensibility, or you are just talking any how because of politics?
yes Mahama have a certificate from Russia as a communication expert, and can go to the institution which issued him that for replacement if it got lost, so why cant Akuffu Addo go to INN for replacement of the lost cert, if he is indeed trained there as a lawyer?
Dessie 7 years ago

Your right Nana can't be a leader with" half-truth "personality: can't be president lied about law certificate

Your right Nana can't be a leader with" half-truth "personality: can't be president lied about law certificate
Nii Dove 7 years ago

Silly

Silly
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

This is a good article Nii Mabel Dove-Danquah.

Let us all wait and finish the series before...

Don't insult. Just provide your facts to challenge the author if you have any. I don't believe in insults.

Have a great ...
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This is a good article Nii Mabel Dove-Danquah.

Let us all wait and finish the series before...

Don't insult. Just provide your facts to challenge the author if you have any. I don't believe in insults.

Have a great weekend.
Rastafara"I" 7 years ago

you can become a lawyer in PA without a degree

you can become a lawyer in PA without a degree
Neu 7 years ago

Those who insulted Bokor can come and also insult Prof Lungo

Those who insulted Bokor can come and also insult Prof Lungo
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Why?

Why?
Nana 7 years ago

I usually would not comment but the advocacy for the separation of attorney General from Ministry of Justice is, to my mind, mistaken and expensive. Just one example; in the US, the Attorney General is also the Secretary (Min ...
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I usually would not comment but the advocacy for the separation of attorney General from Ministry of Justice is, to my mind, mistaken and expensive. Just one example; in the US, the Attorney General is also the Secretary (Minister) of Justice. he or she heads the Justice Department as well as serving as AG. The problem in Africa is that we blame the incmpetence of our leaders and governments on so many things. IF the AG is not doing well just change him or her. No need to create more and more ministries. The people are already burdened with ministerial costs. let's use the money to build hospitals, schools, stop importing poisonous sulphur gasoline, poisonous electronic waste, etc.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Nana,
Thanks for your comments!

If we may, you are neglecting the fact that the US is a federal government, unlike Ghana; that Ghana is in Africa; that there is the purely the political, and there is the "administrative". ...
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Nana,
Thanks for your comments!

If we may, you are neglecting the fact that the US is a federal government, unlike Ghana; that Ghana is in Africa; that there is the purely the political, and there is the "administrative".

You neglect the fact that the reason institutional racism and discrimination, the reason the Justice Department can't convict police who murder innocent minorities in the US derives out of that arrangement.

Ghana can do better by separating those two positions.

Government is expensive.

But justice denied is a lot more expensive.

NPP had a chance to help Ghana solve that problem. They failed, once!

This goes directly to the so what of Prof Asare's essay.

Greetings!
Nii Teiko 7 years ago

Your brief comment has exposed the 'Geek Squad' who talk pleeennnnty but of little or no substance. Lungu's poorly organized treatise has really exposed him of his lack of comprehension on matters of public discourse. In fact ...
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Your brief comment has exposed the 'Geek Squad' who talk pleeennnnty but of little or no substance. Lungu's poorly organized treatise has really exposed him of his lack of comprehension on matters of public discourse. In fact, Lungu should have spared readers of this wasted space on Ghanaweb when he realized that one can become a lawyer in California after a 4-year apprenticeship in a law office or a judges chamber(see no. 4 of the five bullet points above) . Yet he ignored this bare fact, and foolishly went ahead to produce this stupid stuff which does no one good, or serve no purpose other than his hate-filled agenda to denigrate the most popular and respected politician in Ghana at the moment. Lungu probably needs a gollon of Kalyppo drink to refresh his outrageous thinking.
Hero 7 years ago

Who is this one too? What you have written is absolute rubbish and I'm wondering which institution awarded you with a Phd.Yourself and Micheal Bokor or whatever he calls himself are both naive, intellectually deficient and mo ...
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Who is this one too? What you have written is absolute rubbish and I'm wondering which institution awarded you with a Phd.Yourself and Micheal Bokor or whatever he calls himself are both naive, intellectually deficient and morally bankrupt to the core.Having said that, the contents of what you think is a well written article are incoherent and flooded with inconsistencies just as Bokor's previous articles on this subject matter did. One would have thought that education could have done you both an intellectual favour but it proved otherwise judging from the kind of intellectual analysis you engage yourself in. As a matter of fact it's not a secret that Bokor obtained his degrees from unaccredited bogus institutions and I'm tempted to believe that you also went to same institutions to get your useless academic accolades.Stop disgracing your family and soiling yourself in curses.God will surely expose you and your diabolical ways.Useless man!
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Hero,
You've said a lot about intellect, coherence, and deficiency of thought.

We were not going to respond. Then we got to the end of your piece.

READ: "...Stop disgracing your family and soiling yourself in curses.Go ...
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Hero,
You've said a lot about intellect, coherence, and deficiency of thought.

We were not going to respond. Then we got to the end of your piece.

READ: "...Stop disgracing your family and soiling yourself in curses.God will surely expose you and your diabolical ways..."

WE SAY: We imagine that work, those statements, are the work of a human being, an African, with sufficient critical faculties to answer their own question, "Who is this one too"!

See a lot about the original Ghana heroes at www.GhanaHero.com.

PEACE!
Oko 7 years ago

Asare was not writing about today? Was he? He was writing about how people became lawyers through "apprenticeship" such as studying at the Inner Temple.

Asare was not writing about today? Was he? He was writing about how people became lawyers through "apprenticeship" such as studying at the Inner Temple.
Alhaji Bamba 7 years ago

I thought Asare said we must take time into consideration since the requirement to become a lawyer changes over time. He even gave examples of Ghanaians who had no degrees and became lawyers, something that is not possible in ...
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I thought Asare said we must take time into consideration since the requirement to become a lawyer changes over time. He even gave examples of Ghanaians who had no degrees and became lawyers, something that is not possible in today's Ghana.

For your information, Chief Justice Marshall had almost no formal schooling and studied law for only six weeks.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Alhaji Bamba,
Thanks for your comments.

We tend to agree with you.

We are also saying Prof Asare's treatment of the case borders on the trivial, or worse, a political hatchet job.

Times a-changing!

What is to be ...
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Alhaji Bamba,
Thanks for your comments.

We tend to agree with you.

We are also saying Prof Asare's treatment of the case borders on the trivial, or worse, a political hatchet job.

Times a-changing!

What is to be done now and in the future is important.

At the same time, if one said they have a law degree and were qualified for a position for which they were hired in public service based on that claim, they themselves must still show the degree even if they are no longer at the position.

Greetings!
kululu 7 years ago

I see good leadership qualities in Nana Addo and that's what matters to me. Prof. Mills with all his law expertise come no where to Rawlings achievement in politics, who was just an O'level grade qualification. do people eat ...
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I see good leadership qualities in Nana Addo and that's what matters to me. Prof. Mills with all his law expertise come no where to Rawlings achievement in politics, who was just an O'level grade qualification. do people eat degrees?
ROGUE LAWYER 7 years ago

give us the examples of good leadership skills you seen or saw in Akuffu Addo, from been as MP, to the ministries and now opposition leader for the past 8yrs

give us the examples of good leadership skills you seen or saw in Akuffu Addo, from been as MP, to the ministries and now opposition leader for the past 8yrs
V. POPULI 7 years ago

Kuluulu or whatever you call yourself, the reason you cannot compare Rawlings with Nana Addo is that Rawlings at no time in all his 19 years at the helm of affairs in Ghana pretended to be what he is not. He came on the polit ...
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Kuluulu or whatever you call yourself, the reason you cannot compare Rawlings with Nana Addo is that Rawlings at no time in all his 19 years at the helm of affairs in Ghana pretended to be what he is not. He came on the political scene as a Flight Lieutenant and remained so till the end when others would have made themselves Air Marshall or even higher. But here we have Nana Addo who is claiming to be what he is not. This shows he is not comfortable with his real self and to make matters worse, he is trying to deceive the good people of Ghana. Now, in spite of all the explanation that Prof. Asare is trying to give for Nana Addo not having a certificate, I cannot believe that any reputable institution would train someone and at the end the successful trainee is told to go without any certificate or document of proof that the person has indeed undergone the apprenticeship. If so, on what basis does such a trainee get employed? It just doesn't make sense. It is only possible with, for example, apprentices from wayside mechanics. And some of you people go as far as referring to Nana Addo as a "legal luminary"? What a joke!!! At best he is an academic fraudster.
Dessie 7 years ago

Are these "Rogue Professors"
Competing each other who is genius and who is not by attacking each other with uneccessary argument and counter argument instead of writing writing compelling articles that touch readers and boas ...
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Are these "Rogue Professors"
Competing each other who is genius and who is not by attacking each other with uneccessary argument and counter argument instead of writing writing compelling articles that touch readers and boast readers moral of reading or encouraging young and up-coming graduates who enjoy readings..it is distasteful to read articles from the so call Professors that do not make any meaningful impact on readers apitite of reading
Chuks, Tudu/Nima 7 years ago

I still don't see the evidence of Nana having a law degree

I still don't see the evidence of Nana having a law degree
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

The writer of this article kept referring to policy even though he has no credentials in policy issues, let alone a legal mind to configure the intricacies of evolution the practice of the law.

Who do we believe, a quack s ...
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The writer of this article kept referring to policy even though he has no credentials in policy issues, let alone a legal mind to configure the intricacies of evolution the practice of the law.

Who do we believe, a quack self acclaimed policy analyst or a Professor of law? Such is the case in this goddamn country, where the blind always leads the blind.

Let it be clear to all these brainless yahoos and impertinent rabble rousers that Akufo-Addo was called to the English Bar (Middle Temple) in 1971, and was admitted to Ghana Bar in July 1975 with or without a law degree. That's all matters to me.

Akufo-Addo went on to become a very successful lawyer and won many high profile cases in the Supreme Court of Ghana. Any person who doubts Akufo-Addo's credentials as a lawyer, a law luminary for that matter, has no respect for Ghana's democratic institutions such as Ghana Bar Association that admitted him in 1975, the Judiciary and the Justices of the Supreme Court that permitted him to argue the high profile cases.

Ghanaians should stop the perennial 'pull him down' psychosis and spend their energies on what really matters.
SARPONG 7 years ago

Good one there, Kwabena. Some of us are aware people went to Middle Temple Inn, Lincoln Inn, Gray's and Inner Temple Inn to train as Lawyers and whether degree or certificate, they are called Lawyers.

It is childish how th ...
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Good one there, Kwabena. Some of us are aware people went to Middle Temple Inn, Lincoln Inn, Gray's and Inner Temple Inn to train as Lawyers and whether degree or certificate, they are called Lawyers.

It is childish how these yahoo's continue to engage in this foolishness.
Sister Souljah 7 years ago

Kwabena going by your logic must we also allow fake medical doctors to practice their trade because they are rightly diagnosing and treating patients?

Kwabena going by your logic must we also allow fake medical doctors to practice their trade because they are rightly diagnosing and treating patients?
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

Why would Ghana Bar Association admit a fake lawyer to the Bar, and do you understand the process of admitting a lawyer to the Bar?

There are two types of lawyers - barristers and solicitors. Barristers must gain admission ...
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Why would Ghana Bar Association admit a fake lawyer to the Bar, and do you understand the process of admitting a lawyer to the Bar?

There are two types of lawyers - barristers and solicitors. Barristers must gain admission to the bar, but solicitors must have a distinct practising certificates (law degree). Every aspiring lawyer in the early days would have three distinct opportunities to become a lawyer; a) by obtaining a law degree, b) passing a bar exam, c) serving in an apprenticeship. Barristers 'Read the law', and as Prof. Asare explained, Reading the law consists of an extended internship or apprenticeship under the tutelage or mentoring of an experience lawyer. Some States in the US still allow this practice today. Solicitors must however, obtain a degree and pass Bar exams before they are permitted to practice law.

Using 'fake' to describe Akufo-Addo's credential is rather unfortunate and I would advise you to desist from it. Akufo-Addo is a graduate of Legon with a BSc(Econ) degree, and after returning home from studying law abroad, co-founded in 1979 the law firm Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co, one of the most prominent law firms in the country. Some brilliant Ghanaian lawyers who passed through Akufo-Addo's law firm are the most outstanding lawyers at the at the Ghanaian Bar today. They include Sophia Akuffo, Justice of the Supreme Court, Joyce Darko, Daniel Afari Yeboah, Philip Addison, Joe Ghartey, a former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and the list goes on. Is this the man you disparage as fake?

My friend, stop reading from rabble rousers like Bokor and other empty heads and do your own research.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Sister Souljah,

Thanks kindly for your comments.

Oddly, Kwabena Yeboah writes as if we were total strangers on this platform.

We are not!

Fact is, he has lost every discourse were ever engaged in. So, now, Kwabe ...
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Sister Souljah,

Thanks kindly for your comments.

Oddly, Kwabena Yeboah writes as if we were total strangers on this platform.

We are not!

Fact is, he has lost every discourse were ever engaged in. So, now, Kwabena Yeboah pretends anonymity!

If we may, we would like to re-phrase your statement by inserting "appear" to arrive at the precise meaning for our current purpose, the meaning that as well provides a robust critique of Prof Asare when at the end of his essay he tells the reader, "...most old time lawyers in Ghana had no law degree or in some cases degrees at all. But most of them were extremely competent...":

To wit:
"Kwabena (Yeboah) going by your logic must we also allow fake medical doctors to practice their trade because they appear to be rightly diagnosing and treating patients?"

Finally, Kwabena Yeboah also makes many claims by his comments about things he has zero knowledge of, even of "...brainless yahoos and impertinent rabble rousers..."

READ:
"...The writer of this article kept referring to policy even though he has no credentials in policy issues, let alone a legal mind to configure the intricacies of evolution the practice of the law...Who do we believe, a quack self acclaimed policy analyst or a Professor of law?..."

WE WILL TELL YOU: Kwabene Yeboah knows nothing about those matters.

Further, even "...brainless yahoos and impertinent rabble rousers..." ought to know that it does not take a lawyer, a law degree, a solicitor, a barrister, or whatever Kwabena Yeboah accepts for his own self, to "configure the intricacies of evolution of the law"; that it is not so much about the practice of law and its administration as the History of Man, Modernity, evolving civilization, and The Progress of Man.

To the point, for the last 30 years at least, one only needed to have attended an accredited University/College, and actually made use of those educational facilities, to appreciate that "evolution".

Sadly, we must add that as smart and as credentialed as Kwabena Yeboah wants us to know he is, he failed miserably to recognize that:

(1) This essay is not an attack on Akufo Addo per se

(2) This essay is multi-part,

(3) We are actually engaged in many matters that "really matter()", to us, and to Ghana.

Greetings!
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Dear Readers,

I have a NPP friend who teaches law/jurisprudence here in the US, who read Prof. Asare's article and communicated to me serious factual errors he discovered in Prof. Asare's article. This friend is a lawyer h ...
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Dear Readers,

I have a NPP friend who teaches law/jurisprudence here in the US, who read Prof. Asare's article and communicated to me serious factual errors he discovered in Prof. Asare's article. This friend is a lawyer himself!

In fact, he was just about writing a rejoinder to expose those factual errors when I drew his attention to Prof Lungu's essay.

He read it, and has since shelved his own rejoinder pending Prof Lungu's publishing the rest of his articles on the controversy.

Thanks.
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Hello Readers,

I have a NPP friend who teaches law/jurisprudence here in the US, who read Prof. Asare's article and communicated to me serious factual errors he discovered in Prof. Asare's article. This friend is a lawyer ...
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Hello Readers,

I have a NPP friend who teaches law/jurisprudence here in the US, who read Prof. Asare's article and communicated to me serious factual errors he discovered in Prof. Asare's article. This friend is a lawyer himself!

In fact, he was just about writing a rejoinder to expose those factual errors when I drew his attention to Prof Lungu's essay.

He read it, and has since shelved his own rejoinder pending Prof Lungu's publishing the rest of his articles on the controversy.

Thanks.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

Let's make this clear. 1) Lungu, you are not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, and please stop behaving as one. 2) You have no knowledge of policy formulation and its implication so stop fooling yourself.

I would ...
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Let's make this clear. 1) Lungu, you are not a lawyer by any stretch of the imagination, and please stop behaving as one. 2) You have no knowledge of policy formulation and its implication so stop fooling yourself.

I would rather err on the side of a Professor of law who reads and comprehend the law, than err on the side of a self acclaimed claptrap rabble rouser whose thought process always leaves much to be desired.

If your essay is not an attack on Akufo-Addo, then what is it? How can you support the views of the obnoxious Bokor and not attack Akufo-Addo?

I hardly read or comment on your articles, because they are in most cases disjointed and poorly put together, lacking in diction and coherency. The last time I responded to your article was when you attacked my person, and I swore thereupon not to waste my precious time on your gibberish, except this mindless attack on Akufo-Addo.
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Dear Brother Kwabena,

Good day wherever you!

Please take it cool. Prof Lungu is one of the profoundest men I have come across in my life.
I do not think you know Prof Lungu as I do so I will keep quite on that, at lea ...
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Dear Brother Kwabena,

Good day wherever you!

Please take it cool. Prof Lungu is one of the profoundest men I have come across in my life.
I do not think you know Prof Lungu as I do so I will keep quite on that, at least for now!

I have tried to profile him for my readers just as I have done with Dr. Yaw Nyarko (New York University), Dr. Kofi Kissi Dompere (Howard University), Dr. Victor Lawrence (Stevens Institute of Technology)...but he says NO.

He is one of the most influential yet modest intellectuals I have come across.

Prof Lungu has assured me that at the appropriate time he will let readers know what he is about and who he actually is (in terms of his credentials and whay he does).

So for now I will keep my mouth shut. At the approapriate time Prof Lungu will let readers into aspects of his academic and professional life.

He is more knowledgeable than most people I have come across in my life. UNLIKE MOST PEOPLE ON GHANAWEB, I KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING (WHEN IT COMES TO PROF LUNGU, HIS PROFESSION, AND ACADEMIC TITLES).

The day he opens his mouth to speak on his own behalf, people will be shocked. And I also know why he writes the way he writes. He will explain all these in the future when he feels like it!

Have a great weekend.

Thanks.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Noted!

From our vantage point, one weak aspect of the Prof Asare's paper is the glossing over of requirements for professional certification and qualification, in the past, and in contemporary time.

Take the case of the ...
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Noted!

From our vantage point, one weak aspect of the Prof Asare's paper is the glossing over of requirements for professional certification and qualification, in the past, and in contemporary time.

Take the case of the big deal Prof Asare makes of the "apprentice".

Reportedly, in 2015, "out of 83,963 bar exam takers, only 60 (0.07%) were apprentices. Of the 60 apprentices, a mere 17 (28%) succeeded in passing the bar exam to become eligible to practice law, compared to 71% for those out of ABA-approved law schools.

So, what is the point speaking as if Ghana is still stuck in/at 1934, or 1945?

That is why the Thurgood Marshall example is so outrageous. But that, we will discuss in the next paper.

Greetings.
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Kwabena Yeboah,
"Stranger"!

If we have insulted you in the past, what we did was merely to throw to you your own words.

Your initial "stranger" comments are still full of insults.

Do you want to re-check?

Do yo ...
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Kwabena Yeboah,
"Stranger"!

If we have insulted you in the past, what we did was merely to throw to you your own words.

Your initial "stranger" comments are still full of insults.

Do you want to re-check?

Do you want to apologize?

What gives?

YOUR:
"...If your essay is not an attack on Akufo-Addo, then what is it? How can you support the views of the obnoxious Bokor and not attack Akufo-Addo?..."

WE SAY:
Answer the question yourself, Kwabena Yeboah.

How does one flow from the other?

More important, please show readers precisely where we attack Akufo-Addo in this essay. (Go check the records and come back again).

Peace!
Rastafara"I" 7 years ago

I know someone in Philadelphia, PA called to the BAR in 2005 through the traineeship...his father trained him in his chambers...

I know someone in Philadelphia, PA called to the BAR in 2005 through the traineeship...his father trained him in his chambers...
Nii Teiko 7 years ago

Your brief comment has exposed the 'Geek Squad' who talk pleeennnnty but of little or no substance. Lungu's poorly organized treatise has really exposed him of his lack of comprehension on matters of public discourse. In fact ...
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Your brief comment has exposed the 'Geek Squad' who talk pleeennnnty but of little or no substance. Lungu's poorly organized treatise has really exposed him of his lack of comprehension on matters of public discourse. In fact, Lungu should have spared readers of this wasted space on Ghanaweb when he realized that one can become a lawyer in California after a 4-year apprenticeship in a law office or a judges chamber(see no. 4 of the five bullet points above) . Yet he ignored this bare fact, and foolishly went ahead to produce this stupid stuff which does no one good, or serve no purpose other than his hate-filled agenda to denigrate the most popular and respected politician in Ghana at the moment. Lungu probably needs a gollon of Kalyppo drink to refresh his outrageous thinking.
Kwabena Yeboah 7 years ago

Nii, we know them by their stripes - always irresponsible and replete with hot air. Your prescription is bang on - Kalyppo drink is what they need.

Nii, we know them by their stripes - always irresponsible and replete with hot air. Your prescription is bang on - Kalyppo drink is what they need.
francis kwarteng 7 years ago

Hi Readers,

I have a NPP friend who teaches law/jurisprudence here in the US, who read Prof. Asare's article and communicated to me serious factual errors he discovered in Prof. Asare's article. This friend is a lawyer him ...
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Hi Readers,

I have a NPP friend who teaches law/jurisprudence here in the US, who read Prof. Asare's article and communicated to me serious factual errors he discovered in Prof. Asare's article. This friend is a lawyer himself!

In fact, he was just about writing a rejoinder to expose those factual errors when I drew his attention to Prof Lungu's essay.

He read it, and has since shelved his own rejoinder pending Prof Lungu's publishing the rest of his articles on the controversy.

Thanks.
BONNDD????? 7 years ago

we now know that AA had A first degree in Econs. Then he went England. What type of law degree did he get.? LLB or the CPE for non law graduates.What University awarded him the first law degree?. After that what Inn of court ...
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we now know that AA had A first degree in Econs. Then he went England. What type of law degree did he get.? LLB or the CPE for non law graduates.What University awarded him the first law degree?. After that what Inn of court did he do his law training? Grays , Lincoln. It is a fact that some lawyers in the 50s and 60s gained admission directly into the Inns of law and qualified as Solicitors and Barristers. They were given formal certificates indicative of their new status as BL AND Solocitors.
SARPONG 7 years ago

Dummy, you don't need a law degree before being admitted to train as a lawyer at one of the four Inns in London. If you have a law degree, then you don't need to enter any of the four Inns, Lincoln, Middle Temple, Inner Templ ...
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Dummy, you don't need a law degree before being admitted to train as a lawyer at one of the four Inns in London. If you have a law degree, then you don't need to enter any of the four Inns, Lincoln, Middle Temple, Inner Temple or Gray's.

Seems like you did not read this article. AA trained at Middle Temple Inn.
Kotey 7 years ago

If you don't understand the issues,it is wise to shut up else you expose your ignorance.

The Common Professional Examination/Graduate Diploma in Law (CPE/GDL) is a postgraduate law course in England and Wales that is taken ...
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If you don't understand the issues,it is wise to shut up else you expose your ignorance.

The Common Professional Examination/Graduate Diploma in Law (CPE/GDL) is a postgraduate law course in England and Wales that is taken by non-law graduates (graduates who have a degree in a discipline that is not law or not a qualifying law degree for legal practice) wishing to become either a solicitor or barrister in .

You are accusing someone who is more knowledgeable in law than you.
NPP KWASEAFUO PARTY. NPP JIMIFUO KUO 7 years ago

Akronfu Addict is a big time fraudster.

Akronfu Addict is a big time fraudster.
Kwasi 7 years ago

Garbled pseudo essay!

Garbled pseudo essay!
Rastafara"I" 7 years ago

Fact is, today, nobody in the US gets to be a qualified lawyer, let alone be appointed US Supreme Court Justice, US Attorney-General, US Attorney, State Attorney-General, County Attorney, City Attorney, etc. who does not have ...
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Fact is, today, nobody in the US gets to be a qualified lawyer, let alone be appointed US Supreme Court Justice, US Attorney-General, US Attorney, State Attorney-General, County Attorney, City Attorney, etc. who does not have a bona fide "law degree" from an accredited/recognized law school. In some cases, even courses one took at the undergraduate level (pre-law, as they may say), matters to politicians and administrators who sit at the selecting/hiring table(s).

This is NOT true. I know some who in 2005 was called to the BAR in Philadelphia, PA..through the traineeship option/route...
Prof Lungu 7 years ago

Rastafara"I",
How is that..."very wrong", when you talk of "2005" (more than a decade ago), and we speak of "TODAY"?

From several of your comments I've read over the course of the last few months, you come off as probably ...
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Rastafara"I",
How is that..."very wrong", when you talk of "2005" (more than a decade ago), and we speak of "TODAY"?

From several of your comments I've read over the course of the last few months, you come off as probably a lawyer, or one associated with the law, possibly in the US.

How many more have you known, since, Rastafara"I"?

Our Part 2 of the paper will soon follow on these same pages.

Greetings.
Man Of God .....USA 7 years ago

ABOA BA

ABOA BA

Prof Asare totally distorts why Akufo-Addo has no law degree (Part 1)

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