The Coalition of Unpaid Teachers (CUT) has announced its intention to picket at the head office of the Ministry of Education in Accra in the coming days on account of the government’s failure to pay their salaries for the past four years.
The angry unpaid teachers – close to 1,000 across the country – in a press statement issued and jointly signed by its executives in the persons of Jude Appiah Boateng, President; Edmond Stuberg; Vice President, Aikins Effah Boateng; General Secretary, Gloria Afua Nyarko; Deputy Secretary, Abigail Owusua; Public Relations Officer, Riis Nyarko; the Organiser and Hannah Esi Appiatu, Deputy Organizer, claimed that they had been working for years without salaries. Also they were not cleared when the Ministry of Finance cleared some of their colleagues for payment.
“Our grievance is that the Ministry of Finance has given part of the unpaid teachers clearance for them to be given staff IDs, leaving a few of us behind. Our names were not captured when the audit team came round for the exercise; meanwhile, we were all present.
According to the teachers, they were requested to send the necessary documents to the auditors, which indicated their presence on the said day, adding that after all the necessary documents had been sent to the Ghana Education Service for verification, they had not heard anything from the GES till date.
They have called on the government to order the Ministry of Finance to pay them with immediate effect else they would storm the premises of the Ministry of Education to picket before the end of this week.
Source: Daily Guide
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It is high time we become serious as a country and hold irresponsible people to account. Why should the poor teacher suffer for the irresponsible act of some district director somewhere? When you sit in your corner somewhere and recruit people and commit government without financial clearance and approval, you should be punished severely but in the case of Ghana, it is the poor teacher who suffers and the district or regional director who acted irresponsibly is still enjoying his/her salary and allowances.
Some of u @Ghana library Authority have been working for 3years with no salary the problem is with the minister of finance just for him to release d clearance for us to do the biometric is a problem we are facing ooo.hmmmmmmm when
You cannot do propaganda with the economy. Pay the poor hardworking teachers! Aabbaa!!! What kind of government is this? Ghanafuo ahunu amane dodo!
Just vote this president out period.