Teachers in the Sunyani Municipality of the Brong Ahafo Region are furious about the directive from the Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) forcing teachers in the Municipality to buy the second edition of the GES Journal; refusal to buy would lead to the transfer of teachers from their current schools.
The National Secretariat of the Ghana Education Service (GES) contracted Triple A Enterprise Limited to print the GES Journal, totalling GH�300,000, which was pre-financed by the company. The GES has not been able to fulfil part of the agreement, therefore Regional and District Directors have been tasked to pay what they are supposed to pay into the Director-General�s Account.
This, The Finder gathered, has caused various directors to force the teachers to buy the journal at a cost GH�4. Teachers in the municipality are therefore furious not about the price of the journal but about the directive from the Municipal Education Directorate because, according to them, it is an infringement on their fundamental human right.
A teacher who spoke to The Finder on condition of anonymity said the teachers are being treated with no respect. He said they were told that those who do not buy the said journal would be transferred from their current schools to different schools during the 2014 and 2015 academic year.
He also revealed that heads of schools whose staff did not purchase the journal were reprimanded by the Municipal Director of Education, Ms Mary Gyima. The directive has created tension between heads of schools and their staff who are not willing to buy the journal.
However, the Public Relations Officer for the Sunyani Municipal Directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Alanyina Sampana Sampson, could not confirm to The Finder whether it was obligatory for teachers to buy the journal or not but only handed over a letter from GES National Secretariat to the reporter.
A portion of the letter signed by Charles Aheto Tsegah, acting Director-General at the GES said: �As at now, the GES as defaulted in its payment to our printers, who had pre-financed the production of the GES Journal. They are demanding the payment for the first quarter publications to pave way for the printing of the second quarter edition by the end of June 2014. Obviously, this delay will have a spillage effect on the publication of the second quarter edition. In this regard, management is appealing to all Regional and District Directors who have not yet settled their outstanding account to do so immediately on or before Friday, July 4, 2014.�
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