Government’s decision not to pay striking members of the College of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) is wickedness, Nana Yaa Jantuah, a former General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has indicated.
The teachers have been striking for forty (40) days now, and announced a withdrawal of all their services on Wednesday, July 24, 2024. That decision was on the back of the government’s decision to suspend the salaries of its members for their failure to return to the classroom.
Meanwhile, the former Public Relations Officer of the Public Utilities Regulatory Commission (PURC) has said that the only legacy the NPP administration has given Ghanaians is the Free SHS, and it is teachers who are helping government to tout the policy, indicating that it would only be an act of wickedness for the government not to give the teachers what is due them.
According to her, per the Finance Minister’s pronouncements, the promise to pay the teachers their money in two weeks time is not true since government has indicated that it has no money.
“And besides, where is the government going to get the money if the Finance Minister is saying that he is now going to cut cost by GHC69million. Where are they going to get the money because if you have the money and you’re not paying it means you are wicked,” she said on the NewDay on TV3 Thursday, July 25, 2024.
She said “if for any reason” the government has “any money sitting and you owe teachers of education of which they are the people helping you to tout your free SHS –the only thing you’ve done as a government ever since you came into power, Free SHS, even if your knee is hurting you, they say government has done Free SHS, when you are hungry, it is Free SHS, when light goes off, it is Free SHS, and these are the group of people helping you and you don’t want to pay them, then it is wickedness. It is insensitivity. Government is insensitive,” she stated.
She added that “because they (NPP) are symbolised by the elephant which has a thick skin, anything they do, they don’t care about Ghanaians.”
Source:onuaonline.com