GOVERNMENT HAS NOT PAID ALL ARREARS OF TEACHERS.
Our attention has been drawn to a speech which was read by the President indicating that all teachers arrears has been paid off by the government.
He said this when he delivered the keynote address at the 170th anniversary celebration of the Presbyterian College of Education, in Akropong, in the Eastern Region on Saturday 16th June, 2018.
The president indicated that
_"In addition to this year's 11% increase in basic salaries for teachers, the President revealed that Government has cleared *all arrears*, accrued between 2013 and 2016, owed teachers with respect to travel allowances, transfer grants and overtime allowances."_
We think this posture of the President is misleading and a palpable betrayal of trust. Either he has been ill informed by GES or MOE or misled into making statements that do not reflect the realities on the ground. We may not blame our president too much because he is not in touch with whatever happens on the ground but my humble advice is that he ought to consult the grassroots before endorsement of facts.
However, we are greatly dissapointed in GES and MOE for creating the impression that all is well and seeking to print a false picture for the public viewing.
We want to state emphatically without mincing words that the government has not paid *all the arrears* as it had been reported in the media. This unfair treatment of innocent Ghanaian teachers create more apathy and lack of commitment which mostly reflect in the falling standards of education.
We want the media to disregard any form of lies that would be peddled by GES and MOE. Currently, as we speak there are more than 30,000 teachers whose salary arrears are locked up in one way or the other and possibly no hope of receiving what's due them.
The most funny aspect of it is that all of them had been validated for payment. Unfortunately, a group of con men and women have taken over the desperation of some teachers and helping them individually to get their arrears backdoor. Interestingly, if these con men and women are able to assist people to get their arrears then we have every right to believe that the government is being shortchanged or something fishy and unprofessional is going on either at GES or MOE.
The most important thing is that the government must make it a point to pay all outstanding salary arrears. *Transfer grants, travel allowances and overtime allowances* are mostly meant for the GES directorate workers which we think the government must not rejoice over.
We are through this Press Release asking the government that as matter of urgency, attend to the payment of teachers' salary arrears and with immediate effect. The lies about the payment and the various whims and caprices surrounding it have reached their peak and we cannot swallow it anymore.
*We will take to the street and boycott classes if our demands fall on death ears.*
Teachers are not stooges to be toy with.
Pay teachers arrears with immediate effect.
Signed
Mr. Boadi William
CEO of Educate Ghana Summit
Call 0541935106.
Mr. Robert
P.R.O of Educate Ghana Summit
Call 0241995548.
So if Government refuse to pay teachers , then how are they going to teach the students to get better grades , I always ask myself Ghana are we going to get good leaders in future ( Criminals) hmmm
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