At least 3,600 teachers have been cleared in the ongoing validation exercise, the Auditor General’s Department has said.
A report captured on the exercise for the 3,600 teachers is ready to be presented to the Ministry of Finance for them to be paid their 24 months salary arrears.
“We have compiled a list, the Auditor General has validated their documents and they have been found to have been at post. Right now the Auditor General is presenting a report to the Ministry of Finance because at the end of the day it is the report from the audit service that is supreme,” the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), David Ofori Acheampong, revealed.
Three teacher unions; the Ghana National Association of Teacher (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), threatened to lay down their tools, if government failed to pay them outstanding monies owed them by a February,31 2016 deadline.
However, the Audit Department and the Controller and Accountant General’s Department, were supposed to validate the documents before payments are made, because most of them the GES claimed had presented fake teacher certificates, a situation that delayed the process for their clearance.
Meanwhile, teachers and education workers have been given an April 15 deadline for them to submit particulars for the validation process, which will ensure the payment of their salary arrears.
This is one month later than the original scheduled date.
The team, working on the validation, has so far received application forms in excess of 60,000, a statement jointly issued by the teacher unions on Tuesday, March 15 said.
