Law graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) have sent a 20-point petition to the Senate over their exclusion from the Nigerian Law School (NLS) programme.
?According to the Chairman of the NOUN Law Graduates Forum, Mr Carl Umegboro, who made this known in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday, the petition letter was submitted to the Chairman, Senate Committee on Ethics and Privileges, Sen. Samuel Anyanwu.
Umegboro said that the forum raised some issues concerning its members in the letter dated April 23.
The chairman said the issues would help ?the Senate during the public hearing on the National Open University of Nigeria and Nigerian law School crisis which the committee was determined to resolve.
?He said that the Council of Legal Education released its Public Notice in 2015 through various newspapers against the Open University’s Faculty of Law that admitted its first set in 2004 and graduated in 2013.
He said that the Unified Matriculation Tertiary Education /JAMB brochure gazetted by the Ministry of Education clearly indicated that the university was authorised and accredited to offer Bachelor of Law degree.
?Umegboro added that the university’s lecture materials were either developed or edited by the best brains in the legal profession, including Prof. Itse Sagay, who edited its constitutional law 1 and 2.
According to him, the actions of the council of legal education in conjunction with the judiciary are a threat to national security, democracy and the rule of law in Nigeria. (NAN)
