Hohoe (Volta Region), 14 Oct. Fourteen teachers in the Kadjebi district of the Volta Region who have not received their salaries since February, have appealed to the Minister of Education to help resolve the issue immediately. A statement issued at Kadjebi to the authorities of the Ghana Education Service (GES) and signed by Mr. Adolph Kwaku Amoah, secretary of the affected teachers, said they were surprised to see on their February pay slip wrong identity numbers with the words ”over-payment recovery, previous year”. It said the correct identity numbers were deleted for some of the teachers and wrong ones retained showing over- payment recovery running into millions of cedis to be deducted from their salaries. The teachers said that in June last year, each of them received 74,979 cedis and in the same month another pay slip with different identity numbers with the sum of 626,192 cedis was received out of which each of them was paid 50,000 cedis. It said the 50,000 cedis payment was paid on the instructions of the Kadjebi District Directorate of the GES and the district finance office. The statement said in July last year, they were paid 78,077 cedis each adding that this anomaly continued for some of the teachers up to January and April this year. ”These … anomalies have finally brought about the stoppage of our salaries from February to date for some of us”. It said all attempts by the district directorate of the GES and the district finance office to rectify the error at the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department have not been successful. ”We are therefore appealing to the Minister of Education to use her good offices to correct the anomaly and restore our salaries together with our earned arrears to us by the end of this month”.
