The Newly Trained Teachers Association of Ghana has expressed disappointment at the government’s failure to honour a promise to pay their arrears and outstanding feeding grants by end of March 2017.
A statement co-signed by Obeng Agyenim Boateng and Asempa Seyram, National President and National Secretary respectively, said: “At a meeting held between the Minister of Education, Honourable Matthew Opoku Prempeh (MP), and our former union, the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG), held at the Minister’s office, a decision was reached with an assurance that the full payment of our feeding grant arrears, which we were owed, and all our seven months’ salary arrears would be honoured at the end of March 2017.
“We are saddened to report that only one month’s salary was paid us at the end of March. Again our feeding grants were not paid at all. We see government’s attitude as deceptive and cruel, especially when our members have been teaching on empty stomach for the last eight months.
“We embraced the promises of the NPP in opposition and worked tirelessly to see it in government so that our feeding grant arrears, especially, will be paid us. As the government is aware, we have a numerical strength of about 19,000 members and [we are], by a copy of this release to the Minister, serving notice of our resolve to abandon the ongoing end-of-term examination if immediate steps are not taken to address our concerns.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
