The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) is likely to lose about 20,000 votes from teachers across the country who have vowed to vote against the current government for implementing policies that are detrimental to them.
The teachers who are members of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana are protesting government’s decision to pay newly recruited teachers only three months of their salary arrears irrespective of the number of years the said teachers have worked.
The teachers also say their promotion arrears have not been paid hence they are calling on all their members to vote out the government.
Speaking to EIB Network’s Musah Lansah in an interview after a press conference to make their intentions known, the Upper West Regional Chairman of the CCT Alhassan Abdallah Salifu said,” we are not doing this with a partisan mindset but based on our convictions as teachers who have not been treated right”.
According to him, their membership cuts across all political divide including die hard members of the ruling NDC.
” It will surprise you to note that the leadership of the CCT in the upper west region has some serious members of the NDC among us. We are interested in ensuring that our members are treated right”, he told Musah Lansah.
He added that, they will ensure that all their about 20,000 members vote against the NDC.”How can I work for over a year only for you to pay me three months salary?, he quizzed.
Source: ultimatefmonline
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The protested several times but cos of the high unemployment rate they think if the teachers leave they will get the unemployed to fix their positions cos majority worked for yrs a received one 3months salary so dont call them useeelessss,.... Vote against them foe better lives
i blame teachers highly for their misfortune. if a teacher will sit down for months and years without being paid, n now start protesting ... then i think those teachers are uuseless.. we see day in day out how the government in power is stealing and wasting tax payers money carelessly n u didnt protest hard enough n now u re complaining..aarrrhhhh uuseless again