LAW AND PUBLIC LEGAL EDUCATION - GHANA

As usual, my alarm loudly disrupted my sleep at about 4:50AM. I had to get up for work. By 6am we had set off and I was a bit angry because I felt my sweetheart had caused our lateness. I am usually not a happy man in the mornings by the way. Leaving home late in Accra means, you are likely to endure a very uncomfortable traffic for hours before getting to office. The distance between Adenta (where I live) and Asylum Down (where I work) can be travelled within 20 minutes when there is no traffic, yet it usually take an hour and a few minutes for us to get to work when we leave before 6am. Leaving home at 6am or later would mean you could take close to two hours to work. As we drove through the bumpy dusty lane to join the main road, I put on the radio. CITI FM had given me another reason to worry. This time not for my usual egoistic personal wellbeing. I was worried about street children in Accra. It’s not as if I have not always been worried about them. I do chip some of th

 Serving as the president of a nation is one of the highest jobs anyone can ever get in a lifetime. Not only is it high in power, but also in prestige, respect, networking and if you like spirituality. The president of any nation is at the time of his term the image and persona reflector of that nation. The endurance of the 1992 republican constitution of Ghana has blessed Ghana with three living former presidents: John Mahama, John Kuffour and John Rawlings. The theme for this article is centred on happenings soon after the first non-John named individual was sworn into office as president of the republic under the 1992 constitution. The controversy started with the immediate past president, John Dramani Mahama who had made a request to the transition team that as part of his end of Service Benefit (ESB) he would prefer that he is allowed to stay in the official residence of the Vice President of the Republic instead of the republic building a new house for him as recommended