The Teacher Trainees' Association of Ghana (TTAG) has issued a threat to picket at the Ministry of Education on Wednesday 27th December, 2016, having exhausted all efforts to get government to pay feeding grants for students of colleges of education and salaries of newly trained teachers.
The group expressed disappointment in the outgoing government for its inability to pay the feeding grants of students of colleges of education and to also pay newly trained teachers across the country.
“We would like to state our displeasure at the outgoing government for their gross display of negligence and neglect towards the fate of colleges of education and newly trained teachers across the country,” TTAG said in a statement.
The group described Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur’s remarks during his campaign tour of the Foso College of Education that government had released an amount of GHS50million for the payment of feeding grant arrears to trainees in colleges of education in the run-up to the December elections as “propaganda”.
According to TTAG: “This has resulted in misunderstandings between parents and their wards in colleges as well as [with] principals since parents believe their wards are hiding the monies released to them.”
The statement said government released GHS11million as feeding grant, “which was woefully inadequate and far less than what the vice president announced and was even a bounced cheque to the colleges”.
They appealed to President John Dramani Mahama as a matter of urgency to address the concerns of feeding grant arrears to trainees in colleges of education in Ghana as their displeasure and disappointment had reached its peak with the recent increment in the National Service allowance.
TTAG also called on government to expedite action for newly trained teachers who had been teaching since October 1, 2016 without salary for them to be paid.
They called on all teacher unions to join in the fight.
Source: classfmonline.com
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Dana or whatever you call yourself, it's because of people like you that's why Ghana continue to suffer in the hands of wicked politicians. Africanism has eaten deep into you. Africans find it very difficult to make cogent analysis on issues before using their discretion. I think it'll be good if you can get to the grassroot and get the meaning of what the teacher trainees are fighting for, and not to sit in your room and allow shallow mindedness to direct your talks and thinking.
Nana go come pay
Rubbishh, grown up's like you and not ashame of talking about feeding allowance. If government was to be given feeding allowance to all students do you think the country can move on even for a day. Instead of you fighting for government to put in place things so that you can also assess the SNIT loan just like any other students, you are talking about feeding allowance, why, are you in day care. Please give us a break,the time of feeding allowance is overy and the earlier you guys get into your thick heads the better.
I anticepated this ROT since 2008 when ndc won the elections base on their lies and propaganda because i queit remember the rot they left for npp/Kuffour in 2000 with their wisdom cleared us from that HIPC .Here they came again with huge debt left. They are not just leaving that alone but also dishonestly employing new people. Signing new contract hich will further deepends our suffering. Do ndcthinks they are HURTING Nana Addo or Ghanaians?. They have no feeling for us but themselves. I PRAY GHANAIANS SHD NOT FORGET THIS.
Teachers and the likes, you should wait for nana addo to come and pay you all those money, after all that is why you voted our President Mahama