I am Robert Koranteng, a student of
Anmchara International School. As a student, I believe you need to dream BIG.
That’s why my dream is to become a lawyer in the future. Mainly because of one BIG
incident that happened to my family.
We had a piece of land which was ours,
which we used to plant tomatoes, okro, cassava, pepper, among others. But our neighbours
also considered it to be theirs. If my family could have afforded a lawyer, they
could have won the case. However, they found it difficult to express themselves
and win in court by themselves.
There are many more circumstances where
people’s rights are being trampled upon. For instance, when you go to Ghanaian
prisons, there are many people there who don’t know the reason why they were placed
there. Others also who are there to be put
on trial later in the law court have no money to pay for legal aid to ensure
fair judgement. This has become one main reason why I want to step on the field
of law to defend these people, especially the poor who are not given fair
access to justice.
My family’s land problem too has made me
hope to be the first person in my family to turn this around one day. Maybe it
will be in my power to take the land back and settle this BIG dispute. I know
that the General Arts track at the Anmchara SHS is the first BIG step in making
it possible.
