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Validation of teachers' documents put on hold

The ongoing validation process of teachers' documents to facilitate payments of their salary arrears has been suspended.

The validation of documents began to pave way for the teachers to be paid their arrears

This follows some anomalies that were detected in 10,000 documents validated so far.

Acting President of Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Mr. King Ali Awudu has told Pulse.com.ghthat three documents, that is, the Establishment warrant, Recruitment form, and Input form, were not present in the application documents of a lot of the teachers.

He said the teacher unions and government on March 15, 2016 signed a communique to suspend the validation process to enable those anomalies to be corrected.

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"If that is the case, let us break the validation, let the auditors and the entire team go for Easter, and resume on 29th. From the 15th to 29th, GES should go to all the regional education offices and district education offices and get those documents for the teachers, so that when we resume on the 29th and we start the validation those teachers will not be lacking those forms again," he added.

Background

Teachers across the country earlier this year served notice of a strike on February 29, 2016 if government failed to pay them their outstanding arrears by the end of February.

Government had subsequently met the various teacher unions on two different occasions to try and reach an agreement for the teachers to rescind their strike decision.

However, government on the third meeting with the teacher unions on Wednesday ordered the release of an amount of GHS 1,579,078.20 to settle 2012 salary arrears of teachers across the country.

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A communiqué signed by the various stakeholders at the meeting said arrears for 2013 and 2014 will, however, not be paid, until authorities validate some payment processes which will begin on Thursday.

The validation of documents began to pave way for the teachers to be paid their arrears.

The teacher unions, including the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), and the Concerned on March 1, 2016 officially suspended their intended strike which was scheduled for February 29, 2016 until validation of their claims and documents are completed.

The General Secretary of  the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), David Ofori Acheampong, said even though they are yet to receive full payment of their salary arrears from government, they will hold on to the strike following the validation process that has begun by the Controller and Account General’s Department, CAGD and the Audit Department.

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The validation process has however been put on hold following the absence of some documents to complete the process.

The process will however commence on March 29, 2016 to pave way for the arrears of teachers to be paid.

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