The Surrogates Of Prof Mawutor Avorke And Theophilus Akorlie Should Know Better

Some times I don’t get it when those who are expected to know better decide to throw their intelligence away. If indeed God created us as his own image and likeness, l think the surrogates of the interdicted officers are expected to switch on their intelligence and wake up from their slumber. The likes of Prof Avea Nsoh and Dr Samuel Ofori Bekoe who always hide their identity in putting out disjointed articles under pseudo names should think outside the box and understand that, the current ongoing case at the UEW aims at ensuring that some bad nuts who acted as if the university belonged to them are weeded out.

The principles of probity and meticulous accountability are enshrined in the 1992 constitution of the Republic of Ghana. Those personalities are all under *probe* and it is best practice that, they are asked to step aside so that ,their continuous stay in office will not affect the fact finding committee constituted by the university council.

Let me refer the surrogates of the interdicted personalities to avert their minds to the third and fourth paragraph of the 1992 constitution and check for themselves what is meant by" AND IN SOLEMN declaration and affirmation of our commitment to;

Freedom, Justice, Probity and Accountability;"
The emphasis is placed on PROBITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY. This statement alone means that, any citizen of Ghana who serves in a public office could face probe concerning allegation of wrong doing as same could also be done to strict subjection of accountability when it deems fit. The ongoing case in UEW where the two are accused of criminal involvement in awarding contracts to their cronies without strict adherence to the Public procurement Act 2003( Act 663) is not an exception of the letter and spirit of the law.

An attempt to politicise this matter failed miserably due to a known fact that, a campus( Kumasi) faced same criminal investigation by EOCO when management was accused of mismanaging student levies towards a lecture theatre project in 2015. Nobody accused the NDC government whose Attorney General instructed EOCO to investigate the matter upon a petition i filed at the office of the Principal chief state Attorney by name Edward Agyemang Duodu of being behind the case.

In that same case, the targeted man at the centre stage of this controversy ( Hon Alex Afenyo Markin) by the surrogates of the embattled individuals was not accused of having a hand in the said investigation by EOCO.

Today,we have been told by the said surrogates to believe that, when a lawyer is representing his client in court in the interest of justice, the said lawyer automatically turns a plaintiff. Soo Kofi Supi Kwayera who triggered the case at the Wwinneba high court is no more a plaintiff but his lawyer who was only representing him in court. And this is the logic of a Professor and a PhD holder. What a pity to the academia.

I have one principle in life and it is, if you know you haven't committed an offence, you dont see a CID officer and straight away panic. If the surrogates of those interdicted personalities believe that, their paymasters are clean, why are they worried about the ongoing investigation by the university council?

Seriously the water they are seeking to muddy will be the same water that will be given to their paymasters to drink in the upcoming days when the office of the special prosecutor resumes work. Prof Mawutor Avoke and his partner in crime( Theophilus Akorlie) are a bunch of bandits and l am happy they are going to be weeded out as a move in cleaning the University of corruption.

Dawda Eric(Equity)
Citizen for Vigilance
An Alumnus of Uew