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FrimpongAs a renowned and a successful lawyer as Maurice Ampaw has become, one might think he is been grinding his entire life away to earn his spot as one of the best legal practitioners in the country.
However, this is a wrong notion on the part of many who may think that Lawyer Maurice Ampaw really enjoyed his profession as a lawyer.
In an interview by an Accra-based media house, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw pointed out that he had no dreams of becoming a lawyer.
The legal practitioner indicated that he actually wanted to read Political Science and Sociology at the university.
“It might surprise you that I didn’t want to be a lawyer. I wanted to read political science and sociology at the university. I had no intentions of reading law at the university. It was not my passion to become a longer”, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw.
Lawyer Ampaw went ahead to shockingly reveal that it was intimately his brother, one Kwame Ampaw, an accountant, who forced him to become a legal practitioner.
The legal practitioner recounted that he tried all he could to fail the law exams at the Ghana Law School at the University of Ghana, Legon just to convince his brother that he cannot read the course.
“My brother, Kwame Ampaw, told me he is an accountant so someone had to represent my father, who was a lawyer and politician. He directed that I should go to the university and read law rather than Political Science and Sociology”, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw disclosed.
The Maverick Private Legal Practioner added that he was pushed by his brother into the law fraternity, and that he did not like it.
“After topping A-Level at Labone Secondary School, he (Kwame Ampaw) chose Political Science, Sociology and Law. I told him I will not read Law, but my brother, Kwame Ampaw insisted,” the Private Legal Practitioner intimated.
Lawyer Maurice Ampaw disclosed that he decided to abide by the directive of his brother to read the Law Course, but pay less attention to his books, in order to deliberately fail the Course.
He further added that he decided not read his Law books but he never failed the exams as he wished.
“I intentionally decided to fail the law school exams but unfortunately I passed. Political Science and Sociology students were always chilling whilst the law students were burning the midnight candles” Lawyer Maurice noted.
Lawyer Maurice Ampaw stated that after noticing that his reluctance to learning and deliberate attempt to fail the law exams proved futile, he was able to pass the law exams successfully.
He added that nothing he did could stop him from becoming a lawyer, and that it was the will of God for him to become a legal practitioner.
Lawyer Maurice Ampaw added that he was grateful to his brother for making the best decision in life for him, to become what he is today.
By Saint Ayisi