Benedicta Agyei, a newly recruited teacher from the 2024 cohort, says affected teachers decided to picket because they could no longer endure months of uncertainty and unpaid salaries.
Speaking on Adom FM’s morning show Dwaso Nsem, she explained that the problem did not start recently, but dates back to when they first assumed duty.
“The issue didn’t start today,” she said. “When we began working, we were told that our Staff IDs and salaries were being processed, so we should remain calm.”
According to her, in November 2025, the first batch of clearance approvals was released, but some of them were left out.
“They told us to remain calm because another list would come. In December, another batch was released, and still some of us were not included. That was when we started becoming worried” she explained.
She said their leaders subsequently secured a meeting with the Minister, who assured them that those whose names were missing would have their clearance processed in January.
“We waited patiently, hoping January would resolve everything. But when the final batch was released this January, our names were still not on the list. That is why we decided to picket. We don’t understand why our names keep being left out” she noted.
Benedicta further revealed that attempts to seek clarification from both regional and national offices of the Ghana Education Service (GES) have yielded conflicting responses.
“When we go to the regional office, they don’t give us clear answers. When we come to the national office, they say the regions did not submit all the required documents. So we don’t know who is telling the truth,” she lamented.
She stressed that the prolonged delay has taken a heavy financial and emotional toll on them.
“We are going through a lot. We are paying rent and utilities and even taking loans to survive. It is not easy at all. That is why we picketed at the GES yesterday; we needed answers.”
Her comments follow a protest by some newly recruited teachers from the 2024 cohort who picketed at the Ghana Education Service headquarters, demanding the issuance of their Staff Identification Numbers and the payment of outstanding salaries and allowances.
According to the affected teachers, they have worked for 14 months without pay due to delays in processing and releasing their Staff IDs since 2024.
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