{"id":195053,"date":"2025-03-31T22:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-parliament-approves-more-than-gh%c2%a240-million-for-legal-aid-commission-operations\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T22:53:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T20:53:00","slug":"ghana-parliament-approves-more-than-gh%c2%a240-million-for-legal-aid-commission-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-parliament-approves-more-than-gh%c2%a240-million-for-legal-aid-commission-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Parliament Approves More Than Gh\u00a240 Million for Legal Aid Commission Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Parliament yesterday approved GH\u00a240,260,520 for the operations of the Legal Aid Commission in the 2025 financial year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The allocation aims to strengthen the commission&#8217;s ability to provide free legal services to the poor and vulnerable, ensuring equal access to justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Giving details about the report from the committee ahead of the approval, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee, Alhaji Mahama Shaibu, said the Legal Aid Commission continues to struggle with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280312.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament yesterday approved GH\u00a240,260,520 for the operations of the Legal Aid Commission in the 2025 financial year. The allocation aims to strengthen the commission&#8217;s ability to provide free legal services to the poor and vulnerable, ensuring equal access to justice. Giving details about the report from the committee ahead of the approval, Chairperson of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195054,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7828,8326,6274,51009,4508,4509,6393,5118,257,6345,2412,254],"class_list":["post-195053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aid","tag-approves","tag-commission","tag-gh40","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-legal","tag-million","tag-news","tag-operations","tag-parliament","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}