A document proposing a settlement in the\u00a0case challenging the legitimacy of the Governing Council of the University of Education, Winneba, is fake, according to the MP for Effutu,\u00a0Alexander Afenyo-Markin.<\/p>\n
Mr. Afenyo-Markin, the lawyer for the plaintiff, was purported to have authored the document, which proposed that the Vice Chancellor of the University\u00a0be permanently relieved of his post as part of a possible settlement offer.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”weT3UCEsmfzfQmQP0up0dvYHfIIUqGLf”]The settlement offer also proposed that the Finance Officer of the university be\u00a0relieved\u00a0of\u00a0his duty and a new officer\u00a0appointed in addition to the University reserving a 20% quota for the appointment of Lecturers and staff at all levels of the University to natives of Winneba.<\/p>\n
But in a\u00a0Citi News\u00a0<\/strong>interview, the MP clarified that the document was fake, surmising further that, “it is a strategy being employed by some individuals who want to muddy the waters.”<\/p>\n He noted that a meeting was proposed\u00a0between lawyers of both sides of the litigation, who agreed to meet to explore a possible settlement.<\/p>\n But he said “nothing has happened… Not even a draft document has been sent or exchanged.”<\/p>\n “The UTAG local union had an election, with all its questionable characteristics and I am sure that somebody threw in this to achieve a certain purpose. It [the propsoed settlement] is fake. It couldn\u2019t have been the case,\u201d\u00a0Mr. Afenyo-Markin added.<\/p>\n The plaintiff in the litigation in question, Supi Kofi Kwayera, held that the University\u2019s Council\u2019s mandate had expired in November 2013, but the Education Ministry failed to constitute a new Governing Council for the university, and rather allowed and permitted the defunct Governing Council which had no mandate whatsoever to continue the functions of a properly constituted Governing Council as if same had been properly constituted.<\/p>\n