LAW SCHOOL SHOULD BE ABOLISHED AS IT IS REDUNDANT AND EXPLOITATIONAL, SAYS CHADEMA MP'S.

Head of School of Law Tanzania, Prof Kabudi Palamagamba.

Members of Parliament have advised the government to abolish Law School as it has been unproductive and redundant. Ms Christina Mughwai (Special Seats-CHADEMA) and Mr Peter Msigwa (Iringa Urban-CHADEMA) said the School should be abolished and the course be incorporated into Bachelor in Law (LLB) programme.
Ms Mughwai claimed that most of LLB graduates had failed to attend Law School and remained jobless because they could not access loans from Higher Education Student Loan Board (HESLB).

Ms Christina Mughwai Lissu(MP)

According to her, HESLB Act does not allow Law School students to get loans from the board despite the fact that the Law School Act of 2007 requires the students to pass through the school first before they are recruited by a public sector.
Ms Mughwai therefore wanted to know government’s position on the matter. In her supplementary question, the legislator wanted the school to be abolished and the course incorporated into LLB programme.
Mr Msigwa questioned why the school programme was mandatory and said that the School had been rendered redundant.

Mch. Peter Msigwa(MP)

“We’ve lawyers such as Issa Shivji, Mabere Marando and Tindu Lissu, who are competent but never went through a Law School,” he added.
On behalf of the Minister for Constitutional and Legal Affairs, the Minister of the State, President’s Office, Good Governance Mr Mathias Chikawe, said that the school was established under the law and therefore only the Parliament could abolish it.
He also said that the establishment of the school followed recommendations by a team led by Judge Mark Bomani with a view to produce more advocates to compete with other East African member states.
Mr Chikawe, however, noted that the government had issued loans worth over 3.8bn/- to 1,396 students of the Law School.

“The loans are managed by the School’s governing board…The government is pondering on permanent arrangement of issuing loans to Law School students,” he added