Who would have thought that the decay in Nigeria’s education system has sunk as deep as practicing lawyers sneaking into Law Schools to impersonate students writing law exams?

Well it has happened.

Yesterday, the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School Professor Olanrewaju Onadeko said some lawyers have been caught writing exams for students in the school.

He made the revelation while speaking in Port Harcourt at the presentation of the report of the school at the ongoing 56th Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA).

Onadeko did not state the number of affected lawyers, but said the matter had been reported to the NBA.

He urged the association to take action against such lawyers to save legal education in the country.

The News Agency of Nigeria -NAN- reports that Mr Rotimi Jacob, SAN, charged the NBA to address the issue raised by the director-general of the law school.

He said those found guilty should be disciplined after due process had been followed to determine their cases.

Jacob said the issue was serious because of its implications on the future of legal education in the country.

The outgoing President of NBA, Mr Augustine Alegeh, said the association had not received report of such incident in the past two years.

He, however, said that the NBA had a committee to handle the matter on receipt of the report.