The Supreme Court has dismissed a suit by former Vice Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, UEW, Professor Mawutor Avoke, in a controversial case in which he was seeking an order to compel the University to reinstate him.
Professor Avoke went back to the Court to seek an order for reinstatement, because the Governing Council of UEW did not allow him to take his former position.
The High Court had earlier found Prof Avoke and the former Director of Finance of the University, Dr. Senyo Ackorlie, guilty of procurement irregularities leading to their removal from office, a ruling which was subsequently overturned by the Supreme Court.
Counsel for Prof Avoke and the former Director of Finance of the University, Dr. Senyo Ackorlie, Harold Tivah Atuguba, in November 2018 wrote to the University’s Governing Council, directing it to prepare the office of his clients to enable them resume work on Monday, November 26, 2018, following the Supreme Court ruling, that quashed a Winneba High Court’s decision during the aftermath of the dismissal of the two former officers of the University.
But the Governing Council described as baseless the reinstatement request, and threatened to take action against the two, if they stepped foot on campus.
This compelled Prof Avoke to go back to court to seek an order for his reinstatement which has been denied. One Supi Kofi Kwayera filed the suit at the Winneba Hight Court against the two, insisting that the Vice Chancellor and the Finance Officer were operating under the institution’s defunct governing council.
The Court then ordered Prof Avoke, to step aside until the case brought against them and the University’s Governing Council was determined.
The plaintiff argued that the University Council’s mandate had expired in November 2013, but the Education Ministry failed to constitute a new Governing Council for the University, and rather allowed the defunct Governing Council which had no mandate whatsoever to continue in the functions of a properly formed Governing Council.
