General News of Tuesday, 19 March 2019Source: 3news.com‘Double-track’ teachers not paid salaries for 5 monthsThe Ghana Education Service is said to be dragging its feet in the exerciseAbout 8000 teachers recruited by the government to facilitate the implementation of the controversial double track system under the Free SHS policy, have not been paid their salaries five months after their employment. Of the three processes required, the new teachers have completed only one, which is the filling of what they termed IPPD forms. According to the teachers who form the Association of Newly Recruited Teachers (ANRT), they have met the Education Minister Mathew Opoku Prempeh twice on the non-payment of their salaries, but there appears to be no hope in sight for them. “We think they are lying,” Agyemang said, indicating there appears to be a growing culture within the GES where it takes a year or more before newly recruited teachers are paid. They have thus appealed to all stakeholders and President Nana Akufo-Addo to intervene to ensure they get their salaries.

Source: GhanaWeb March 19, 2019 13:07 UTC