The Winneba High Court has ordered that Prof. Mawutor Avoke be reinstated as the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba.
The Former Vice Chancellor was removed from office when one Supi Kofi Kwayera, took him to court insisting that the Vice-Chancellor and the Finance Officer, at the time, were operating under the institution’s defunct governing council.
The plaintiff claimed that the University Council’s mandate expired in November 2013, but the Education Ministry failed to form a new Governing Council for the university, instead allowing the defunct Governing Council which had no mandate whatsoever to continue in the functions of a properly constituted Governing Council.
Prof Avoke, along with a few other University Principal Officers, was ousted by the school’s Governing Council following the Court’s decision in December 2017.
The court also ruled that all others who lost their positions in the school or were affected by the long legal tussle to be reinstated, and their salary arrears paid to them with retrospective effect from the day they were unlawfully removed.
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Source: Vera Siripi/ATLFMNEWS
