The leadership of the Coalition of Newly Recruited Teachers appreciates the efforts of the government through the Ghana Education Service to secure financial clearance to post over sixteen thousand of its members.
However, the leadership would like to draw the attention of the public to the facts that:
Appointment letters for the newly posted teachers were released on January 21st, 2022 which took effect on the 1st of February 2022.
About 80% of the newly posted teachers have not received their staff IDs, let alone,
their salaries.
Those who have gone through the biometric process after the list of the second batch was released have not received their salaries as of 1st August 2022. A situation which is not supposed to be.
Most newly recruited teachers have been forced to live on their parents’ meagre
pocket money due to serious hardship resulting from the non-payment of their salaries for 6 whole months. At the same time, GES continues to expect them to show up to work every day, apparently unaware of the irony.
The vacation date for basic schools still stands on 11th August 2022, and an attempt by GES to continually release staff IDs during the break will result in the
inconvenience for many newly recruited teachers, being forced to return to their region of the post before their vacation is over.
We, the newly posted teachers, understand that it takes some time before the staff
IDs are issued, but over 6 months are long overdue.
We are therefore by this missive appealing to the Ghana Education Service and all stakeholders involved to expedite the process of issuing the staff IDs to all the newly recruited teachers accompanied by a scheduled date for the biometric process.
Furthermore, we again appeal to stakeholders, the media and the entire public to contribute to their quota in order to mitigate the plight of the newly posted teachers.
We end by saying, a hungry man is an angry man and no angry man can have a
positive impact on students. Therefore, if this delay persists, we should not be
blamed if we seek alternative measures to sate our hunger and thirst.
Augustine Appiah
(Convener)
0249014168/0276883192
Joshua Owusu Yeboah
(Press and Information Secretary)
0592945783/ 0206181956
Below is the publication by the leadership of the Coalition of Newly Recruited Teachers.
