Ama Governor to be Called To the Bar this Month

YouTuber Elorm Ababio, popularly known as Ama Governor, has finally qualified to be called to bar following her controversial denial twice.

Her name is among some 182 individuals who would be called to the bar on May 31, 2024, a notice issued by the Director of Legal Education, Nana Barima Yaw Kodie Oppong confirmed on May 21.

A part of the notice furthered that the list is not exhaustive and may change if the attention of the General Legal Council is drawn to certain irregularities.

Background
Ama Governor’s call to the Bar together with her colleagues on November 11, 2022, was put on hold after a “concerned citizen” petitioned the Council over the breach of the Ghana School of Law’s Students Code of Conduct on her part despite passing the examinations.

A copy of the petition to the GLC by one Hajia Siduri said Ama Governor does not have a “good character”- a basic requirement for a call to the bar- and “should not become a lawyer in Ghana”.

“Ms Ababio can be seen in a widely circulated video of herself and other students damaging the reputation of the school’s lecturers and the entire school. One such video published on her YouTube channel is titled ‘Ghana School of Law: Do Law Students Sleep in Class?’ It has been viewed by thousands of subscribers to her YouTube account.”

Other things the “concerned citizen” talked about are Ama Governor’s nose piercing and sexuality- lesbian.

Per the petition which was dated October 30, Ama does not deserve to remain in the Ghana School of Law or to be called to the bar.

Regulation 21(c) of the Legal Profession (Professional and Post-call Law Course) Regulations, 2018 L.I. 2355 states that “A student of the school qualifies to be called to the Bar if that student has … satisfied the Council that the student is of good character.”

She was again denied a call to the bar in 2023 on the basis that that an element in her public conduct was unfit for the Bar.

In the letter sighted by opemsuo.com, the GLC said their decision was taken after monitoring her conduct.