By GIDEON NYENDWA
GOVERNMENT should nullify the Zambia Institute for Advanced Legal Education (ZIALE) examinations so that proper modalities can be put in place before the students can be allowed to sit for the examinations again, a lawyer, Mr Lazarus Chisela, has said.
Mr. Chisela, who is also Zambia United for Sustainable Development (ZUSD), president said it was embarrassing to have only one person, pass the ZIALE examination out of 395 students.
“It is embarrassing not only to Zambia but to the world at large,” he said.
He said the government should close ZIALE and take an initiative to establish a committee to investigate what was causing the poor performance at the institution.
Mr. Chisela said there was something wrong going on at the institution because the outcome of the examinations raises questions about what kind of lecturing the students undergo before the examinations.
He said ZIALE should not take pride in failing the students because whatever result the student produced they replicated the kind of lecturers at the institution.
Mr. Chisela said Zambians want to know why there has been so much failure at the institution for a long time because the excuses they gave do not even add up.
“We want to know the reason why almost everyone failed the examination,” he said.
He said that the excuses that ZIALE had been giving suggesting that universities graduate half-baked law students that was why they always fail to pass their examinations because they fail to meet the standard does not make sense and should not be used as a scapegoat.
Mr. Chisela said ZIALE was supposed to be conducting their own continuous assessments and determine who was ready to sit for those so that they could be allowed only those who were qualified to sit for that exam.
He said it was unfair to be failing students all the time with pleasure, some of the students come from poor families and struggle to raise the money to pay for ZIALE and at the end of the day they all fail.
Nullify ZIALE exam – Lawyer
