Mr Frank Nigel Othembi, the Director at Law Development Center (LDC) has revealed that only four universities in Uganda are in position to produce competent lawyers.
Frank Othembi says out of the 15 institutions accredited to teach law in Uganda, only 4 of these are living up to the standards.
He made the revelation while appearing before the legal parliamentary affairs committee to defend the 2022/2023 ministerial policy statement.
“There are 15 universities accredited to teach law and honestly, not all of them are doing it because in my view out of the 15 universities, there are only 4 that I can say are teaching law in the law it should be taught,” Othembi said.
Othembi also claims that the lifting of the pre-entry exam into the bar course has affected the quality of Students they admit into LDC.
The rate at which Students fail LDC has become quite alarming in the recent past with only 10% getting the required mark in the previous academic year.
Othembi says the failure cuts across Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, insisting that the failure is a result of the poor quality students sent to LDC by the diverse learning institutions.
