One of the Ghana’s teachers union, known as All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG), has declared it’s decision to embarked on a demonstration, to show their displeasure over the deduction of GH¢509 from the teachers professional development allowance for the payment of government’s one-teacher one laptop policy.
The demonstration, dated for 15th December, 2021, seeks to draw the attention of the Ghana Education Service to refund the deducted money instantly.
According to the union, the deduction is being done without alternative to a court process looking to stop the distribution.
On a Citi News interview, the General Secretary of All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG), Albert Dadson Amoah said, “on 15th December 2021, they should prepare for us. Teachers are maximizing themselves. We want to use this forum to call on Ghana Education Service (GES) once again to immediately refund the GH¢509 to teachers”.
“Besides, there are some GES workers who are not teachers, there are cleaners, cooks, etc. Some earn as little as GH¢700 and the government has gone ahead to deduct GH¢509 from their salaries. How are these people expected to survive ?”
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He wailed that GES has “disrespected teachers for so long, and they are going to stage a demonstration to protest this decision”.
In another development, the Founder of the Innovative Teachers Association Ghana (ITAG) Stephen Desu, says the decision by ATAG and other teacher unions to go on a demonstration is irrelevant since there is a pending court case on the matter.
“We will concentrate on the court issue and not waste our time demonstrating. We disagree with the step they intend to take”, said Stephen Desu.
The government required that teachers pay 30 percent of the total cost of GH¢1,550, through deduction from their salaries, while the government paid the remaining 70 percent, under the one teacher, one laptop policy.
A decision that did not sit well among some teachers, and see it as necessary to embark on a demonstration, to register their displeasure on the matter. Even when the issue is a subject of Court ruling.
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