A private legal practitioner, Egbert Faibille Jnr, has accused the University of Ghana (UG) of misinterpreting a court’s decision over the controversial closure of all access routes into the school.
The University of Ghana closed all access routes into its campus to the public with the exception of the entrance from the Okponglo intersection.
The closure was announced after the school was forced to suspend its tolling system which generated public outcry leading to the destruction of one of its toll booth by national security operatives.
Subsequently, only vehicles with the 2014 UG sticker were allowed to enter and exit the school through all the access routes.
[contextly_sidebar id=”In6H4gHYY5nLDPN8isIK7QXMNnccNNyJ”]Some 130 parents who had enrolled their wards in the University of Ghana basic school sued the UG over the directive.
The parents sought a perpetual injunction against the university from continuing with the ongoing restrictions.
However, in a press release signed by Stella Amoa, the Director of Public Affairs at the university announced that “the matter was heard by the Human Rights Court on 2nd September, 2014 and upon hearing the submissions by Counsels for both the applicants and the university, the honourable Court dismissed the application brought by the parents to bring an end to the matter in its current form.”
But, speaking on Eyewitness News on Thursday, Faibille Jnr, who is also a lawyer for a student of the university who has sued the school in a similar case pending at the Supreme Court said, the information put across by the UG created the wrong impression about the court’s declaration.
He complained that the case has been “put out as if a court has determined the case on its merits. It was an injunction application that has been dismissed and then the court proceeded also to dismiss the writ for want of capacity.”
“The court did not proceed to make any declaration that the University of Ghana is right or wrong in charging tolls. The court has not determined that matter at all. So that is a wrong impression that has been created in the minds of the public,” he insisted.
Stella Amoah in response clarified that the release was meant for the stakeholders of the institution.
“I don’t think that it is for me to go into the merits or demerits of a case that was before the honourable court. The UG has released this information to its stakeholders and it is not for the university to express an opinion on what has been said by the Human Rights Court,” she added.
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By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh/citifmonline.com/Ghana