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General News on Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Source: citinewsroom.com
2018-11-27
Professor Mawutor Avoke
The attorneys of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW), fired, Professor Mawutor Avoke, and former finance chief, Mr. Theophilus Senyo Ackorlie, said that they would go to court again to force the University to return to his position. their clients.
After the Supreme Court overturned a decision of the High Court that prompted their dismissal, the two men had notified Monday their return to the University, with a letter from their lawyers asking the STE government council to " prepare their offices "for their resumption official duties.
After the Supreme Court overturned a decision of the High Court that prompted their dismissal, the two men had notified Monday their return to the University, with a letter from their lawyers asking the STE government council to " prepare their offices "for their resumption official duties.
However, they did not show up on Monday after the board of governors called the application unfounded and threatened them with calling them "non-grata persona" – they showed up on campus with the school board. intend to occupy their offices.
According to one of their lawyers, Harold Atuguba, who spoke on Eyewitness News, they advised their clients not to go to school after threats from the UEW government council.
He said that they would seek a court ruling to force the university to welcome their clients.
"There is a recipe for chaos and we have advised our customers not to go there and raise the political barometer. What we know best is to guarantee the rights and all the rights of our clients to the courts.
"If a group of people think they have the right to use brute force to circumvent the law, we will not engage them in this way. What we will do is go back to court and ask him to enforce the effects of his judgment. "
The genesis of Avoke's woes
In 2017, the High Court of Winneba ordered Prof. Avoke to retire until the case was settled and the University Board of Governors decided.
The case was brought to court by a superior, Supi Kofi Kwayera, who insisted that the Vice Chancellor and the Finance Officer were operating under the vanished executive board of the institution.
The plaintiff argued that the term of office of the university council had expired in November 2013, but that the Ministry of Education had failed to form a new board of directors for the school board. university, but instead had allowed the deceased management board, which had no mandate to continue to exercise the functions of a duly constituted board of directors. .
Supi Kofi Kwayera also alleged financial irregularities and purchases by Professor Avoke.
In July 2017, the court then ordered Professor Avoke to withdraw until a trial was brought against him and the determination of the University's governing board.
Also in July, Professor Avoke and four other people; the finance officer, Dr. Theophilus Senyo Ackorlie; Daniel Tetteh, Mary Dzimey and Frank Owusu Boateng were banned by the school after it became apparent that some essential documents kept in some of the offices at the center of an ongoing investigation had disappeared.
They were subsequently found guilty of irregularities in public procurement and other purchases in December 2017.
The irregularities concerned the sums paid to the contractors of the North Campus Roads project.
In August 2018, the UEW Board of Directors dismissed the five principal executives of the institution after the establishment of a fact-finding committee.
Professor Avoke maintained his innocence and challenged his charge in court.
He brought the case before the labor chamber of the High Court of Accra, but the case was beyond his jurisdiction.
This forced his challenge to the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court overturns High Court decision
On October 31, 2018, the Supreme Court overturned a decision of the High Court that led to the dismissal of Professor Mawutor Avoke as Vice Chancellor of the University of Winneba Education.
According to the unanimous decision, the High Court of Winneba did not collect the evidence of the parties to the case before rendering its judgment.
The court also said that the High Court had violated the rule of natural justice by not granting defense to the defendants.
The Supreme Court judges ruled that the actions of the High Court constituted an error of patent law.
Following the decision of the High Court of Winneba in December 2017, Professor Avoke was dismissed, along with some other senior officials of the University, by the school's governing board.
Some speakers described this as a political motivation.
New VC inducted
Rev. Teacher. Anthony Afful-Broni was subsequently appointed to the position of 4th Vice-Chancellor of ETS, despite the case of Professor Avoke.
President Nana Akufo-Addo attended the enthronement.
Prior to the induction, Raymond Atuguba, a former lawyer for Professor Avoke, warned the President that he would encourage illegality if he started the initiation.
It is because of the case before the Supreme Court that was challenging the dismissal of Avoke.
Professor Atuguba said he was alarmed by the involvement of the president, who had "admirable skills in respect of the rule of law".
Professor Atuguba withdrew his representation from the former vice-chancellor in open court because he reportedly stated that he "felt the invisible hands" manipulating the proceedings.
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