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Takoradi Polytechnic management cited for contempt
Sekondi, July 17, Ghanadot/GNA - Professor Daniel
Mireku-Gyimah, Chairman of the Takoradi Polytechnic Council
and four management staff of the school have been cited for
contempt of court at a Sekondi High Court on Monday.
The other defendants are Dr Samuel Obeng Apori, Principal of
the School, Mr. Anthony Bassaw, Vice Principal, Mr. Anthony
Joe Turkson, Dean of Students, and Mr Jones Addai Marfo,
Secretary.
An affidavit supporting the case said the students body
filed a writ of summons against the Takoradi Polytechnic
seeking to suspend the second semester examinations
scheduled for July 16, which it described as "inappropriate,
premature, potentially destructive, detrimental and not in
the best interest of the students".
It said an order be granted to restrain the Principal, the
management, the council, their agents, servants or others
from conducting the said exams for the 2006-2007 academic
year until new SRC executives were constituted and that a
decision of the Council on June 11 should be implemented.
The affidavit further stated that in spite of the notice,
the school management ignored the court processes and went
ahead to conduct the examination.
As a result of the motion, students of the Polytechnic were
not prepared to write the examination when it took off on
Monday.
In separate interviews, a cross section of the students told
the Ghana News Agency that they would not write the
examination until the court decides on the motion.
The students said they were hoping that the examinations
would be postponed because of the motion and had not
prepared for it. However, many students later changed their
minds and wrote the examinations.
GNA
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