Communication Team Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Haruna Amaliba, has advised the Ghana School of Law to respect privacy of its students.
He described the right to privacy of every Ghanaian as guarded under the constitution of Ghana and deems it a bit hard for students of the Ghana School of Law to be asked to submit their social media handles to the Ghana Legal Council for monitoring to ensure they are of good character.
According to him, the fundamental human rights as enshrined in the constitution must be upheld by the 3 arms of government and all organs operating under it.
“The General Legal Council is going beyond their boundaries. The students must have their privacy as guaranteed by the constitution. The call of the General Legal Council for the students to present their social media handles for monitoring is too hard and they need to soften their stance,” he told Don Kwabena Prah on Happy98.9FM’s ‘Epa Hoa Daben’ political talk show.
The directive from the Ghana Legal Council is to ensure that students’ good character requirements are not compromised.
“Everybody will have to provide their social media handles. We are going to look at it, and you will be monitored in terms of conduct,” Yaw Oppong, the school’s Director of Legal Education.
“We are required by law to make recommendations. We don’t want to stampede you. You are going to reapply beyond the pass and submit yourselves for all legitimate checks,” he said during the swearing-in ceremony of the School of Law Students’ Representative Council (SRC) executives.
By: Joel Sanco