Caleb Elorm Kadu, a third-year student of the University of Ghana, has filed a suit at an Accra High Court against three senior officials of the same institution he is currently schooling.
The Vice-Chancellor, Dean of Student Affairs, and a Senior Tutor at Alexander Kwapong Hall are the three persons Elorm is suing among others.
The suit by Elorm who is a resident of Alexander Kwapong Hall includes the Junior Common Room (JCR) President and Electoral Commissioner of the Kwapong Hall. He is aggrieved over his disqualification from the 2021 JCR Presidential race which he feels he has been unfairly treated.
According to him on June 18, 2021, he received a letter from the Dean of Student Affairs disqualifying him as a Presidential candidate in the Alexander Kwapong Hall JCR elections without being given a hearing in contravention of Article 23 of the 1992 Constitution and the audi alteram partem principle of natural justice.
He continued that before this, the BSc Education (Physics) student claimed to have been cleared by the Dean of Students to contest in the presidential race and added that efforts to get the Dean to reverse his decision proved futile.
“The plaintiff further states that the Dean of Student Affairs insists on the Plaintiff’s disqualification even though the Plaintiff has supplied to him, incontrovertible evidence of his disqualification,” part of Elorm’s writ of claim read.
The writ of claims stated that the Dean of Student Affairs has sidelined the constitutionally constituted Electoral Commission of the Alexander Kwapong Hall and has in its stead, constituted a different body to conduct the Elections.
On what he wants done, Elorm noted that he wants the court to declare that he is qualified to contest in the Presidential race of the Alexander Kwapong Hall Junior Common Room elections. He further request that he wants a declaration that his disqualification by the Dean of Student Affairs is unlawful and illegal, therefore null and void and of no legal effect.
Concluding, he is requesting that he be reinstated in the Kwapong JCR presidential elections.
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