Hundred and two (102) aggrieved teachers have secured a judgment debt of Ghc3,471,240.72 against Ghana Education Service over non-payment of three to four years salary arrears.
The 102 plaintiffs across the country sued GES and Attorney General in 2017.
The Koforidua High Court presided by supervising high court judge Justice Gifty Dekyem (Mrs) on December 18, 2020, entered a judgment of Gh3,471,240.72 including costs and interest against GES to be paid to the teachers.
However, after a year of the judgment, GES has failed to pay the judgment debt forcing the plaintiffs to execute the writ of fieri facias to confiscate vehicles of GES including Administrative vehicles in good shapes and buses of some Senior High Schools to auction to defray the debt.
The exercise is being carried out with the protection of armed police.
One of the plaintiffs, Effah Darko, said they will employ all legal means to retrieve the monies which they have worked for.
“We are about 102 teachers and we worked from 2011. We worked for three and four years. It was only in 2016 that the government started to pay us without paying those arrears. We wrote petitions to other stakeholders for the arrears to be paid but they refused to pay. so our last option was to get a lawyer to fight for us. We went to court in 2017 we had judgment in 2020 but after the judgment government is refusing to pay the money. Almost a year now. So the option left for us is to confiscate the properties if our employer auctions them to settle the debts”
He continued “We have impounded the vehicles of the Regional Director and the Regional Accountant. They are now at the forecourt of the high court. We also impounded the Birim South District Director’s car but the director and driver run away with the keys so we now planning to tow away the car to the high court in Koforidua”.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Obed Ansah
