The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed reports that over 400 teachers have been identified by the Ministry to have presented fake certificates for employment.
“It is not true; that is a thing of the past …my Director General was addressing a different issue, where we referred to those things as some of the challenges that cause the delay of the processing of our teachers’ documents for the payment of the arrears they were requesting for,” the Public Relations Officer of the GES told Fiifi Banson on Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa 102.3 FM Monday.
He further pointed out that the GES only detected that in the past and has subsequently handed the issue to the Bureau of National Investigation (BNI),
Reports are rife that teachers numbering over 400 have been identified by the Ministry of Education to have presented fake certificates for employment.
According to the said reports, Regional Directors of Education on the heels of the anomalies had been tasked to forward verification reports on all teachers in both basic and second-cycle institutions under their jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer(PRO) Peter Korda has blamed the GES for doing a poor job in that regard, adding that GES failed to do due diligence.
“We’ll not shield any wrongs- but the various District Directors of Education did not do any better verification into that, they being representatives of the Director General across the country.”
Korda however called on the GES to tread cautiously, insisting that its claims rather sought to stereotype all teachers as using fake documents.