The 13 persons who were arrested Monday during a demonstration to push for reforms in Ghana legal education have since been granted bail, the police said.
According to the Accra Regional Police Command, the persons were “embarking on an illegal demonstration.”
“At about 8:30 am today, October 7th 2019, a group numbering about Three hundred (300) believed to be members of a group of students who failed the entrance exams to the Ghana Law School besieged the entrance to the law school, sat down in the middle of the road thus, prevented a free flow of traffic,” the police said in a press release.
Read the full release below for the official statement from the police:
By J. Ofori