The Coalition of Concerned Teachers has threatened a legal suit against the Ghana Education Service(GES), Finance Ministry and the Controller and Accountant General Department(CAGD) for non-payment of salaries of some teachers.
Some teachers across the country had their June salaries frozen by the Controller and Accountant Generals Department (CAGD) because they failed to submit their SSNIT numbers as earlier directed.
The President of the Coalition, Ernest Opoku says the teachers are disappointed with the Ministry of Finance’s refusal to pay them.
“We think that it’s a ploy to shortchange Ghanaian workers and for that matter, teachers.
“I decided to have a meeting with the Controller and what the woman said was that they believe the people are ghosts so I asked her if I am a ghost.
“It is a worrying situation but it is only in Ghana that a Minister can sit somewhere and issue directives that at the end of the month don’t pay workers’ salaries and then Controller too will go ahead.
“I don’t know what is happening in this country and I think that we must rise up and say that enough is enough.
“If we have to go to court, we will go to court; if we have to demonstrate against the Controller, the Ministry of Finance and the Ghana Education Service, we would”
By: Kasapafmonline.com/Ghana
