Lawyers of the five interdicted principal officers of the University of Education, Winneba, have written to the University Council, demanding their immediate reinstatement.<\/p>\n
They have threatened to go to Court if their demands are not met within 7 days.<\/p>\n
The officers, including the Vice Chancellor, Professor Mawutor Avoke and Finance Officer, Dr. Theophilus Senyo Ackorlie, were directed by the University Council to step aside for investigations into allegations of financial malfeasance against them.<\/p>\n
This follows legal actions involving the university, the local chapter of the teacher union, and some private citizens.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”mHYd4iIWY2rwtenlFy8TdqeeWBKOdnul”]The Supreme Court last month quashed a guilty verdict handed down the officers by the High Court, while upholding the governing Council\u2019s interdiction.<\/p>\n
But the lawyers in a letter to the University\u2019s Council, argued that the Council has a calculated agenda to frustrate the officers.<\/p>\n
They thus demanded \u201cAn immediate and unconditional reinstatement of the Affected Officers, especially (Ing. Daniel Tetteh, Ms. Mary Dzimey, Mr. Frank Owusu Boateng, Dr. Theophilus Senyo Ackorlie and Prof. Mawutor Avoke,) to their various offices to perform their functions in accordance with law.\u201d<\/p>\n
The lawyers also demanded an an immediate and unconditional restoration of the salaries, allowances and privileges attached to the various offices of the Affected Officers, which have been withdrawn as well as an \u201cimmediate payment of all outstanding salaries and allowances withheld from the affected officers together with interest thereon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Below are other reliefs sought by the lawyers:<\/p>\n
Click here for the full letter<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Background<\/strong><\/p>\n In a 23rd\u00a0May 2017 writ<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0issued, the plaintiff [Supi Kwayera] adduced that the university\u2019s council\u2019s mandate had expired in November 2013, but the Education Ministry\u00a0failed 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 This Mr. Kwayera insisted was unlawful, and hence his legal action against the University of Education, Winneba.<\/p>\n However, before the substantive claims were\u00a0looked into, the University, through its counsel, applied to the court to dismiss the suit on the three counts, but the application\u00a0was\u00a0dismissed<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n The University\u2019s branch of the University Teachers\u2019 Association of Ghana (UTAG) as a respondent subsequently applied to join the application.<\/p>\n In June this year, the plaintiff prayed the to effect an interlocutory injunction restraining the 1st Respondent, its assigns, agents, officers and all other persons acting through the 1st Respondent or claiming to be the lawful representatives of the 1st Respondent from authorizing any payment to any contractor or supplier whose contract is the subject matter of the substantive application before the court.<\/p>\n Again,the injunction was to restrain the 2nd Respondent from recognizing any supposed Principal Officer or any person whose mandate as an officer of the 1st Respondent emanated from the defunct Governing Council as the lawful representative(s) of the 1st Respondent until the final determination of the substantive application.<\/p>\n The injunction also sought to restrain the 1st Respondent and its lawful representatives from making any payment to Ghana Highway Authority or any third party entity including Larmas Construction (GH) Ltd in respect of a Memorandum of Understanding with Ghana Highway Authority for road maintenance until the final determination of the substantive application.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey & Sixtus Dong Ullo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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