[ 2017-03-15 ]

Education Minister, Mathew Opoku Prempeh

Over 74,000 teachers pending validation – Minister
The Minister for Education, Matthew Opoku Prempeh
has revealed that government has secured monies to
pay the two year outstanding allowances for
teachers.

He said government owes teachers about a GHS 1
billion Ghana, but expressed optimism that the
Ministry would be able to raise the amount to
settle all validated teachers.

Addressing a Press Soiree last night, Dr. Matthew
Opoku Prempeh said about 47,000 teachers are
pending validation, calling on them to cooperate
with government to facilitate payment.

“There is a lot of work to do as far as the
curricula is concerned, and the training and the
retention of teachers are concerned in this
country. That is why the allowances matter are
very dear to our hearts, that we’ve made plans
to secure the money to pay the allowances that
would be outstanding for teachers for the last two
years. The huge issue about validation of
teachers; there are 74,000 plus of teachers left
to be validated. The bill for that is nearly a
billion cedis, but I’m sure that once we
validate them, we will bring them onboard and pay
them as and when the validation finishes batch by
batch. So we expect cooperation, and its something
we’ve accepted to do and it is in the Budget,”
he disclosed.

Following claims that a number of the teachers in
the country employed by the Ghana Education
Service presented fake certificates, the Audit
Department and the Controller and Accountant
General’s Department, were tasked to validate
the documents before payments are made.

Meanwhile some teachers have been paid their
salary arrears and allowances following a
successful validation of their documents.

Government is currently validating the documents
of over 74,000 because the various teacher unions
in the country demanded the payment of their
salary arrears.

Source - kasapafmonline.com

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