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GES, CAGD Must Resolve Newly Trained Teachers Salary Dilemmas Now

The faith of the Newly Trained Teacher’s salary lies in the efficiency and effectiveness of GES and CAGD. The former Deputy Secretary of the Teacher Trainees’ Association of Ghana (TTAG), Mr. Ekow Djan has added his voice to the call for the GES and CAGD to expedite action to ease or deal completely with the challenges their slow-paced work is having on teachers.

During a Citi eyewitness news report, Mr. Ekow Djan addressed critical issues on the salaries of the newly trained teachers who have not been posted despite meeting all requirements for recruitment as published by the Ghana Education Service (GES).

Five issues that have been tabled to help deal with the numerous challenges include

The need for the GES to work assiduously, to, with immediate effect, release Staff ID numbers of all Newly Recruited Teachers (2018 batch) who haven’t receive theirs.
GES must put measures in place to recruit all qualified but yet to be posted teachers thus; 2018 batch and backlogs of 2016 and 2017.
GES should immediately meet the MoF and CAGD to pay outstanding salaries to all Newly Recruited Teachers.
Whatever, the said anomalies may be, as indicated by the Director-General of GES, the Service must continue its engagement with CAGD to rectify them, to pay all salaries to colleagues who were paid only April 2020 salary instead of five (5) months.
GES, as our sole employer, must engage CAGD to address the anomalies in order to prevent the errors from happening to those who are yet to be paid.

Let it be on records that, the Sector Minister Hon. Dr. Mathew Opoku Prempeh, in 2018, officially announced that, a financial clearance was given to 14,956 trained teachers (2018 batch).

A Teacher’s View: How Should Schools Proceed (or not) With The Rest of the School Year

In view of this, we don’t expect salary arrears of this year batch of teachers since MoF has made allocation for our salaries since 2018. “In any case, we should have been calling for a share in any profit that might have been made on the said money since 2018 till date.”

In the midst of Coronavirus, where we are handicap as a result of GES’s inability to effectively address issues of its employees especially payment of salaries, we shall not relent on issues until the needful is done.