Affected teachers who allegedly used fake certificates to gain employment�into the Ghana Education Service (GES) have called on President John Dramani Mahama to order for the immediate arrest of the Director-General of GES, Mr. Jacob Kor, for wrongdoing.
The affected teachers, numbering about 18,527, could not fathom why Mr. Kor would use his position to recruit teachers with fake certificates, and go ahead to confirm and upgrade them whilst he knew they were fake.
The teachers in a statement signed and issued by its National Secretary, Owusu Baffoe Daniel and spokesperson, Albert Dadson, and Owusu Baffoe Daniel, and copied to�Today�in Accra yesterday, demanded an unqualified apology from Mr. Kor for �fabricating lies in the name of freedom of speech and expression� to mislead the public and for defamation of the teaching profession.�
Lamenting on the substantive issue, more specifically on the claims of input forms being queried by the audit service on the grounds of non-inclusion of certificates, the teachers stated clearly that the various district directors were either sleeping or were under a spell to be accepting and forwarding input forms to the office of the director-general without proper certificates.
They noted that it makes no sense and raises doubts about their qualification and competence to occupy such positions, adding that �we all submitted our certificates since we were made to understand that it was a requisite for claiming the arrears.
�Is it not surprising that forms which were subjected to scrutiny at the district levels before they were forwarded have to be rejected and the rejection notice only be made known to us in two years� time (and even more than that in some cases)?
�Notwithstanding that, we want to state that the issue of non- establishment of warrant as claimed by the director-general is just a ploy by GES and MoE to use ambiguous terms with the intent to deceiving the public,� the statement stressed.
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