GIMPA RECTOR OPENS DEFENCE

THE Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA), Dr Stephen Adei, on Wednesday opened his defence at the Accra Fast Track High Court in the case in which Mr Egbert Isaac Faibille Jnr is seeking an order from the court to restrain him from holding himself out as such and as a professor of the institute.
The Rector said his first appointment letter, which he received on January 1, 2000, made him the chief executive officer (CEO) of GIMPA for a five-year tenure, subject to renewal for only another term of two years.
Dr Adei said after the expiration of his first term of office on December 31, 2005, the President did not remove him from office and he continued to act in that capacity until a new Governing Council was formed.
Therefore, he said, between December 2004 and June 2005 he was still the CEO of GIMPA.
Mr Faibille wants the court to order that Dr Adei is not a professor, either at GIMPA or any other institution, and he 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 is vacant because, according to him, since the tenure of office of Dr Adei expired on October 1, 2004, he has not been re-appointed as rector.
According to Dr Adei, since January 1, 2000 he had been a member of the GIMPA Governing Council in his capacity as the CEO and that he was present at a meeting of the council in June 2005, during which the members discussed the renewal of his appointment, since he had been acting for six months.
Hearing continues on February 19, 2008.