Some newly recruited teachers under the double track system in the Upper West Region besieged the regional directorate of the Ghana Education Service (GES) over delayed salaries.
The teachers, numbering about 100 said they have been teaching for the past seven months without pay.
[contextly_sidebar id=”ESOecln9g4oeTL9WW6bavqEhtTZJhaMX”]Speaking to Citi News, spokesperson for the group, Abdul Samad Baduonkurikuri, said the situation is taking a huge toll on them.
“49 out of the 298 teachers have obtained their staff ID. This is quite miserable. For all of these months we have actually been trying to manage, and this management has come to an end because we can’t manage anymore. As teachers, we need to carry ourselves as such. We have lost everything so we are here to talk to our father to see the way forward because we are hungry, tired and empty.”
“Our brothers in other regions are laughing, because they have received their salaries for the month. But as for us, we are just there and don’t know when we are receiving ours. Information we are gathering is that, ours is indefinite. We don’t know when we are going to receive our staff ID”, he added.
Concerns of teachersÂ
Earlier this year, some of the teachers recruited for the government’s double track system in other regions, also demanded their salaries, months into their appointments.
They said apart from receiving their appointment letters, nothing has been done to process their salaries arguing that the government’s failure to pay them has made their lives unbearable.
The Ghana Education Service at the time said it was working around the clock to pay salaries of the new teachers.
GES blamed the delay in processing the salaries on connectivity challenges.
“Management of the Ghana Education Service wishes to inform staff with salary concerns, especially on promotions and upgrades, and newly recruited teachers that the staff is working relentlessly to complete all data inputs to enable salary arrears to be paid.”