NAGRAT calls on Mahama to remove Deputy DG of Ghana Education Service or…

The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has called on President John Mahama to immediately remove the Deputy Director General of the Ghana education prof. Smile Gavua Dzisi.

They claim that there are better qualified persons in the Public Service to take up the post.

Prof. Smile Dzisi was the former Vice-Chancellor/Rector of Koforidua Technical University, Koforidua, Ghana. She was the first female to be appointed a Rector of a Polytechnic in Ghana.

She led the transition of the Polytechnic into a Technical University. She also served as President of Data Link Institute of Business and Technology, a private University College in Tema, Ghana. Prof Dzisi started her career as a Teacher at St. Roses Senior High School in Akwatia in the Eastern Region of Ghana.

At a news conference addressed by the President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu, the Association said it is ready to meet the President to discuss appointments into the Ghana Education Service.

They stated that any failure on the part of government may result in industrial disharmony.

“We want to request audience with the President on these matters to forestall any upheaval on the labour space,” he demanded.

“We call on the government to look within Ghana Education Service to look within Public Service and the Civil Service in appointing people to head the various established agencies,” Mr Carbonu said.

He added that, “We also call for the removal of all political appointees who have not risen through the ranks who have not participated in our services and replace them with men and women who have toiled, sacrificed, risen through the ranks and have proved themselves, to occupy these positions.”

Meanwhile Executive Secretary of the Civil and Local Government Staff Association (CLOGSAG), Isaac Bampoe who was present at the news conference said, CLOGSAG will solidarize with NAGRAT if it declares the strike.

“We will be writing to the Minister of Jobs and Employment that we want to sit down and talk to the President, we know he is a listening President. We want to talk to him, what is happening now is the development of Ghana that is going to suffer,” he warned.

Source: 3new.com