Musician Bobi Wine’s law degree hangs in balance

The self-proclaimed Ghetto President Bobi Wine’s shot at a Bachelors of Law degree hangs in uncertainity as at the moment, his University (International University of East Africa – IUEA) hasn’t secured accreditation by National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) to teach law.

The chairperson of the Committee on Legal Education and Training of the Law Council, Mr Fredrick Ssempebwa, and the NCHE website maintain that only nine universities were accredited to teach law, excluding IUEA.

We have discovered that Bobi Wine who is a fresher at the university is actually a committed student who attends lectures and fulfills all his assignments in time.

The burden to process accreditation doesn’t lie in his hands though and neither does it lie in those of the other students currently in first and second year.

But shockingly, IUEA, whose pioneer Law class students are in their second year right now, has not secured accreditation but is recruiting and admitting students to study laws at a very high rate.

IUEA and other non-accredited universities are fully self-proclaimed law teaching universities offering bachelors, diploma and certificate awards to their law students.

Prof. Opuda Asibo, the NCHE Executive Director in a statement, said every University teaching law should be accredited and if they are not, then it is being done illegally.

We could not get a statement from the Dean of the Faculty of Law at IUEA Mr. John Kigula as he was unavailable at the time of this publication.

The accredited Universities are;

1. Makerere University, Kampala.

2. Kampala International University, Kampala.

3. Nkumba University, Entebbe.

4. Uganda Christian University, Mukono.

5. Uganda Pentecostal University, Fort Portal.

6. Islamic University in Uganda, Mbale.

7. Busoga University, Iganga.

8. Bishop Stuart University, Mbarara.

9. St Augustine University,Kampala