The Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Prof. Ernest Davies, has disclosed that investigations are underway into the alleged generation of unauthorised staff identification cards following Wednesday’s picketing by newly recruited teachers from the 2024 cohort.
The teachers had demonstrated to demand the issuance of their staff IDs and payment of outstanding salaries.
However, speaking on Adom FM’s Dwaso Nsem, Prof. Davies revealed that there have been instances where teachers come to demand salaries using ID cards which may not have gone through approved processes.
“We have started investigations, held meetings, and instructed each of the regions where these activities were detected on their systems to be engaged for an explanation on the development,” he said.
According to Prof. Davies, he was taken aback when some individuals who had earlier picketed later claimed to possess staff IDs even before financial clearance had been secured in October last year.
“Before we had financial clearance in October last year, some people who had been picketing came to my office to tell me they now had staff IDs, so they are expecting their salaries,” he stated.
“I was surprised because we didn’t have clearance, and that means they didn’t acquire the ID through appropriate means and were not properly generated because we had already submitted the statistics to the appropriate quarters for processing,” he added.
Prof. Davies stressed that teachers who followed due process have been duly validated.
“I want to put it on record that all those who went through the mill correctly, the validation, and submitted their dossiers on time, we have validated them,” he assured.
He acknowledged, however, that the current administration inherited structural challenges within the system. “But there are systemic problems we came to meet, and we are dealing with them,” he noted.
The Director-General said regional directors have been formally engaged as part of efforts to track and reconcile data.
“We have approached regional directors, and we told them we’re giving them the data and mechanisations that were attempted after the validation,” he explained.
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