The Winneba high court presided over by Mr Aboagye Tandoh J. has ordered the reinstatement of Professor Mawutor Avoke as substantive Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education Winneba (UEW).

Prof Avoke and some officers of the university are also to be paid all their salary arrears from the date they were unlawfully removed from their respective offices.

Prof Avoke and the five principal officers were dismissed per a high court judgment in 2017, in a case brought before the court by one Supi Kofi Kwayera, who insisted that the Vice-Chancellor and the Finance Officer were operating under the institution’s defunct Governing Council.

The university, through its lawyers, even before the substantive claims were looked into, applied to the court to dismiss the suit on the three counts.

The court, however, dismissed their application.

The high court, subsequently, found Professor Avoke and the school’s Finance Officer, Dr Theophilus Senyo Ackorlie, guilty of procurement and other financial irregularities.

They were interdicted in July 2017 by the UEW Governing Council to allow for investigations after it emerged that some vital documents at some offices at the centre of an ongoing investigation, had gone missing.

The Governing Council of the University appointed Rev. Fr. Professor Anthony Afful-Broni as the substantive Vice-Chancellor for a limited period of three years.