The Senate today made a clarification concerning the proposed six additional law school campuses to be created in Nigeria, saying the creation is based on merit and necessity not politics.
The proposed campuses are: Kabba Law School Campus, Kogi, North-central, Maiduguri Law School Campus, Borno, North-east, Argungu Law School Campus, Kebbi in North-west, Okija Law School Campus, Anambra in South-east, Orogun Law School Campus, Delta in South-south and Ilawe Law School Campus, Ekiti, South-west.
Chairman Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters, Senator Michael Bamidele revealed this at a public hearing on three bills relating to legal matters at the upper chamber.
The Bills are: Legal Practitioners Act 2004 Repeal and Re-enacment Bill 2021, Legal Education (Consolidation, Etc) 2004 (Amendment) Bill 2021 and Legal Aid Council Act, 2021 (Amendment) Bill, 2021.
The bill seeking additional law school campuses, was sponsored by APC Senator from Kogi State, Senator Smart Adeyemi.
Adeyemi stated that the bill has become necessary so as give a chance to all students to pursue their law career with ease.
Responding to the fear of some lawmakers, Bamidele stated, “Legal education should not be politicized, I don’t think there is an attempt by anyone to politicise legal education. Members are expressing their opinions. Rivers was first offered to host a law school campus. It was because of the rejection that it ended up in Bayelsa. We are elected representatives of the people and even the council for legal education that we are talking about is under our oversight authority”.
