GIMPA COUNCIL CHAIRMAN TESTIFIES IN COURT

THE Chairman of the Governing Council of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Dr Edward Henaku Boohene, has said that he communicated the council’s decision to the GIMPA Rector, Dr Stephen Adei, that he should not use the title professor.
He also said that he did not write any letter to Dr Adei to re-appoint him as a rector after the expiration of his first term of office because by the terms of his previous appointment Dr Adei was to be offered additional two years’ extension.
Dr Boohene was testifying yesterday to close the case for Mr Egbert Isaac Faibille Jnr in a case in which he is seeking an order from the Fast Track High Court to restrain the GIMPA Rector from holding himself out as a professor of the institute.
Mr Faibille also wants the court to order that Dr Adei is not a professor, either at GIMPA or any other institution, and should, therefore, be restrained from holding himself out as such.
He further wants the court to order GIMPA to advertise the position of rector, since it was vacant because, according to him, since the tenure of office of Dr Adei expired on October 1, 2004, he had not been re-appointed as rector.
Dr Boohene said at an emergency meeting held by the Council on September 21, 2007, the council’s earlier decision that Dr Adei should not use the title professor came up because it was not recognised by GIMPA.
He said that after he communicated the decision to Dr Adei, the GIMPA Rector wrote back admitting the decision.
Regarding the re-appointment of Dr Adei, the witness said although he was directed at a meeting to make a re-appointment, that was to be done according to the law and Dr Adei was summoned to a meeting, which he complied.
The witness said he was enjoined by law to appoint a person as rector, according to the terms that the council would provide, while a decision was taken that someone should be appointed to take charge of academic and managerial matters as required by law.
Dr Boohene said during cross-examination that he was not personally the appointing authority of the Rector of GIMPA.