A High Court in Winneba has annulled the University of Education’s branch of UTAG elections which took place on the 9th of August this year.
The court argued that those who superintended over the elections erred by disenfranchising the satellite campus namely Mampong, Kumasi and Kwadaso from taking part in the elections.
The elections organized by the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), excluded members of the Kumasi and Asante Mampong campuses, prompting the lawsuit at a High Court.
A member of the aggrieved lecturers, Dr. Samuel Brako who took the case to court, told Starr News’ Kwaku Baah-Acheamfour that the court directed that a fresh election be held within 21 days, taking into account the satellite campuses that were disenfranchised in the annulled elections.
Lawyer for the lecturers who filed the lawsuit, Alexander Afenyo Markin, said justice had been served and he was grateful.
“Like we indicated, the UEW has four campuses and it cannot be that only two campuses will be allowed to elect officers that represent the university, so we came to court well-fortified under the law, and we didn’t just come just to waste the time of the court.
“All those who were supposedly elected have been restrained forthwith, and cannot hold themselves as executives because that election has been declared null and void.”
Source: Ghana/StarrFMonline.com/103.5FM
