Coalition of Unpaid Teachers (CUT) has mounted
pressure on government to pay them their salaries.
Teachers who were
recruited by the Ghana Education Service (GES) in 2012 have since not received
their salaries, according to the group.
“We the 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015
batch of teachers who were recruited by GES and have yet not been paid, wish by
this press statement, to notify the government over our unpaid salaries,” the
group noted in a statement issued in Accra yesterday.
The release which
was signed by Jude Appiah Boateng, Edmund Stunberg, Aikins E. Boateng, Gloria A.
Nyarko, Kwame Bernard, Riis Nyarko and Hannah E. Appiatus expressed surprised
that for several years since coming out of school they have been teaching
without a penny.
According to the statement, all the necessary
documentation needed for them to be paid had been sent to the GES headquarters
in Accra and wondered why the delay.
“What baffles us most is that our
mother unions, Ghana National Association of Teachers, National Association of
Graduate Teachers and Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana are silence over
this unfair treatment by the government.
…Meanwhile, majority of us have
paid dues before leaving for further studies.
“…what is so amazing is
that the ministry of finance has given clearance to some of our colleagues and
they are receiving salaries leaving some of us with the reason that our names
were not captured in the audit team exercise carried out in Nov/Dec 2015 which
we all took part,” it lamented.
The statement thus called on the general
public, especially the media, to join hands with them in fighting for their
salaries.
“We will also like to notify the government that if by the
close of this week, we have not been given clearance by the Ministry of Finance
and Economic Planning we will advise ourselves accordingly,” it
concluded. |
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