{"id":667237,"date":"2019-07-29T17:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Prof Anthony Afful-Broni <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AN ATTEMPT by a\ngroup of dismissed staff of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to stage\nturmoil on campus Tuesday, July 23, 2019, was subdued by authorities with the\nassistance o"},"modified":"2019-07-29T17:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T17:46:59","slug":"authorities-quell-tension-at-uew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/29\/authorities-quell-tension-at-uew\/","title":{"rendered":"Authorities Quell Tension At UEW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Prof Anthony Afful-Broni <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>AN ATTEMPT by a<br \/>\ngroup of dismissed staff of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to stage<br \/>\nturmoil on campus Tuesday, July 23, 2019, was subdued by authorities with the<br \/>\nassistance of the Ghana Police.<\/p>\n<p>Led by a former<br \/>\nVice-Chancellor, the group stormed the main administrative block, and headed<br \/>\nstraight to the council chamber to address a press conference to announce their<br \/>\nassumption of leadership at the university.<\/p>\n<p>However, a team of<br \/>\nsecurity officers, which was quickly summoned, removed the unauthorised group<br \/>\nfrom the facility, and restored calm there. <\/p>\n<p>Public Relations<br \/>\nOfficer of UEW, Ernest Azutiga, who spoke to <strong><em>DAILY GUIDE<\/em><\/strong> in an<br \/>\ninterview Thursday on campus, said the incident took place while the Vice-Chancellor<br \/>\nwas at post attending to normal activities. He said the Vice-Chancellor remained<br \/>\nat post and carried out his lawful duties till the close of day.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Azutiga therefore<br \/>\nurged students, parents, staff, alumni and all other stakeholders of the university<br \/>\nto treat with utmost contempt any suggestion that there has been a change of the<br \/>\nVice Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement<br \/>\nissued and signed by the Registrar, the university emphasised that the<br \/>\nVice-Chancellor, Very Rev. Prof Anthony Afful-Broni, was still at post contrary<br \/>\nto some mischievous reports circulating in mainstream media and on social<br \/>\nmedia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe further assure<br \/>\nour cherished students, parents, staff, alumni and all other stakeholders that<br \/>\nthe university premises are opened, safe and secured for business. All<br \/>\nadministrative and academic activities, including our sandwich sessions which<br \/>\ncommenced on Monday, July 22, 2019, are going on in earnest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe urge all<br \/>\nstakeholders to remain calm and further wish to indicate that in due course, we<br \/>\nshall keep them and the general public abreast of any new development in the<br \/>\nuniversity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that the dismissed<br \/>\nstaff were invited on a number of occasions to appear before a disciplinary<br \/>\nboard instituted by the UEW council to react to findings established against them<br \/>\nby an established fact-finding committee but refused.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the<br \/>\nuniversity teachers association and other staff have also in a statement,<br \/>\nreacted to a press release issued by the group which staged the disorder. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe the entire<br \/>\ngeneral members of UTAG-UEW are scandalized by a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat-like press release<br \/>\nissued on July 23<sup>rd<\/sup> 2019 by Dr. Frimpong Kaakyire Duku, president of<br \/>\nUTAG-UEW and his executives, purporting that we the members of UTAG-UEW support<br \/>\na rather weird, scandalous and most frivolous position of a self-declared<br \/>\nreinstatement back to office of the former Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Mawutor<br \/>\nAvoke, and some other dismissed staff of the University.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has emphasised that Prof Afful-Broni remained the Vice-Chancellor of UEW.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Samuel Boadi <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof Anthony Afful-Broni AN ATTEMPT by a group of dismissed staff of the University of Education, Winneba (UEW) to stage turmoil on campus Tuesday, July 23, 2019, was subdued by authorities with the assistance of the Ghana Police. 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