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The crisis at the University of Education, Winneba seems not to be ending anytime soon.

The University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) has called for the resignation of the Vice Chancellor, Rev. Prof. Afful-Broni.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' programme, President of UTAG, Dr. Eric Opoku Mensah says they are also calling for investigations into some financial malpractices that has taken place during the tenure of the current Vice Chancellor.

They are also calling for the reinstatement of some sacked 23 teaching and non teaching staff of the University.

Dr. Opoku Mensah explained that what is going on at the University of Education is very appalling and as an institution they are monitoring events.

“The University is not a place to build a cult or a sect where followership is a necessity, the growing sectarian non academic culture and the rise of a dragon at UEW,” he stated.

The UEW has been closed down indefinitely following students riots earlier this month. The students were protesting the dismissal of their lecturers.

The students demanded the reinstatement of their lecturers during the protest.

Principal of the College of Languages Education at Ajumako, Prof. Ephraim Avea Nsoh, was sacked because he had not been cooperating with other management members.

The local President of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG), Dr. Frimpong Kakyire Duku, was sacked after initiating legal action against his employer “without any cause” and without exhausting internal procedures.

A former Alumni President who was representing the alumni on the University Council, Dr. Emmanuel Osei Sarpong, was sacked based on an allegation that he showed a sign of disrespect to the University Council, by deciding to exclude himself from a Council meeting, which he said was about taking a decision he was not comfortable with.

That’s not all, others were transferred, and the reasons given did not satisfy either lecturers or students.

"We have therefore asked the National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE), the Education Ministry, the Economic and Organised Crimes Office (EOCO) and the Office of the Special Prosecutor to launch a probe into the many allegations levelled against Prof. Afful-Broni," he said.

“We are again calling on the Catholic Bishops Conference to call Rev. Fr. Prof. Afful-Broni to order since he has become very treacherous and vindictive."

"Failure by these institutions and government to act on the impudence going at the University will determine our next line of action," he added.