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Teachers in basic schools in Cape Coast have also defied the sit-down strike action called by the national executive of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) from Monday to press home demands including the upward review of supervision allowances and support for teachers on distance education programmes. During a visit to five schools by the GNA in Cape Coast, it found no signs of a strike action and the Assistant Director of Philip Quaicoo Boys' Basic School, Mr. Richard Mensah Attah, said they only heard of the strike action on air and the newspapers but had not received any letter to that effect. He said as a result, teachers were going about their normal duties. The situation was similar at the Antem M/A, Aboom Zion, and St. Monica Girls' Basic Schools, where the GNA was also told that no letter had been received concerning the sit-down strike action, teachers were therefore going about their normal duties of supervising as well as marking scripts and registers. The Assistant Headteacher of the Jacob Wilson Sey Basic School, Ms Grace Pinkrah, said her school had received a letter signed by the General Secretary of GNAT to embark on the strike action. According to her, they could do nothing about it since the students had already written their exams and that the teachers were therefore going about their normal duties until the school vacates on December 17.