Raymond Rex Awiagah

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The Legal Green Association has organized a forum for professional law students from various faculties, and young lawyers to explore their vital role in the upcoming elections 2024.

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The event, which is the first of its kind, delved into key legal issues surrounding the elections, including election petition disputes, constitutional rights, and the crucial role of the Electoral Commission in ensuring free, fair, and transparent elections.

List of Dignitaries

Promising legal figures, including Joyce Bawah Mogtari-an aid to the National Democratic Congress presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama, Dr. Justice Srem Sai- a Senior Lecturer of public law at the University of Ghana School of Law, Legon, Kabu Natey- a law student with the Ghana School of Law were among the list of audience .

They shared their expertise and insights into the evolving role of legal professionals during electoral processes.

Point of view from Law students

Speaking to the media, Kabu Natey said “Clearly it's been a very enlightening experience for law professionals, and law students at the various faculties as we are going into the elections looking at how to protect the ballot, how to ensure credibility, transparency, and more importantly, turn out in their numbers to vote because that is a civic responsibility that law students will have to protect”.

Joyce Bawah Mogtari speaks on Elections 2024

For her part, an aid to the National Democratic Congress presidential candidate, Joyce Bawah Mogtari was unhappy with what she term as reoccurring errors in ballot papers dispatched by the Electoral Commission Ghana to the various regions across the country for the 7th December exercise.

“We have always suspected them of bias especially because there are so many of these partisans currently parading as commissioners. So it is evident and am happy that is it not the NDC crying foul, it is not us coming to tell you that the serial numbers are wrong, it is not us coming to tell you the ballots are not enough, even at the printing houses we are being told that they are printing more than they need”.

She said the 2024 election is an election that the National Democratic Congress is poised to win.

Dr. Justice Srem Sai speaks on inclusivity on Elections 2024

Dr. Justice Srem Sai Senior Lecturer of Public Law at the University of Ghana School of Law justify the rationale for law students and young lawyers to get in live in the electoral process.

He called on young lawyers to go to the hinterlands where their services are mostly needed. He said the presence of a lawyer in some of the rural areas could change a lot because they can advise and give a bit of education to the people as well as the security officials.