Mr Justice William Ato Mills-Graves, a Winneba High Court hearing a case involving an assembly member and the authorities of the University of Education Winneba (UEW), has taken on the managers of the school and the media for the misinterpretation of reliefs he granted the plaintiffs during the last sitting.

When the substantive case was called on Friday June 16, 2017, the judge did not hide his anger over the incident which led to the closure of the university; a development he said was outside the reliefs the court granted the plaintiff.

According to him, the court only ordered that the three principal officers – the Vice Chancellor, the Registrar and the Financial Officer (Director of Finance) to cease operations until the determination of the suit wondering was misreported and wrongly implemented by the school’s authorities.

Private legal practitioner and the Member of Parliament for Efutu Constituency in the Central region, Alexander Afenyo Markin who also doubles as counsel of the plaintiff had threatened to raise the matter on Friday accusing authorities of implementing a totally different directive from what the court stipulated just to win public sympathy.

“Closing down the institution was not part of the reliefs we sought from the court. Why will somebody go and close down a public institution when the reliefs granted did not direct same? This act is worse than the lynching of the soldier at Denkyira-Boase”, he claimed.

According to him, the registrar of the institution was up to some mischief with some people for which reason he facilitated the closure of campuses of the school on his own volition without recourse to the court’s ruling.