EU saga: former VC staff member and dismissed dismissed by police

General News of Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Source: starrfm.com.gh

2019-07-23

On Tuesday afternoon, a team made up of national security members and police members chased dismissed staff members from the Winneba Education University.

Among the dismissed staff members who stormed the Council Chamber on Tuesday, July 23, were former Vice Chancellor Professor Mawutor Avoke, former Arkorlie Finance Officer and Dr. Ofori Bekoe. , who was denied reinstatement by the Cape Coast High Court on Monday. and Effutu MP Alexander Afenyo-Markin.

This occurred after Afenyo-Markin, along with the five dismissed officials, broke into the university boardroom to reinstate the dismissed public servants.

The action comes seven days before the decision of the High Court of Cape Coast on a case filed by Afenyo-Markin contesting the legitimacy of the current Vice Chancellor, Reverend Afful-Broni.

Deputy Chancellor Mawutor Avoke and the other five fencers are currently holding a press conference in the Council Chamber, according to Starr News Central Regional Correspondent Kwaku Baah Acheamfour.

A few days after the university indefinitely suspended its planned and announced congregation for 2018/19 graduates due to the government's inability to form a new government council to oversee the ceremony following the expiry of the term from the current president, last month.

On Monday, a senior UEW official also sued the university and its vice-chancellor, Anthony Afful-Broni.

Kingsley Amoakwah, an accountant by profession and President of the Union of the Senior Staff Union, seeks an order prohibiting Afful-Broni from "standing as Vice-Chancellor or performing such duties on the SSU." ".

He is also seeking an order "prohibiting Afful-Broni from continuing to interfere in the administration of Professor Mawutor Avoke, the legitimate Vice-Chancellor of the UEW".

Context

In 2017, the High Court of Winneba ordered Professor Avoke to withdraw until a case was brought against him and the University's governing board decided.

The Governing Council subsequently dismissed Avoke and replaced him with Professor Afful-Broni.

Professor Avoke's lawyers, in November 2018, wrote a letter to the school's board asking him to prepare their client's office to allow him to resume his duties after his alleged exemption from the Supreme Court.

The board of directors however supported Professor Afful-Broni despite accusations of victimization, injustice and other actions that would have discredited the professor. image of the university.