The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has complained about the government’s tardiness in paying its members’ allowances.
The TTAG claims that the country’s now intolerable economic conditions have made the living conditions of its members worse due to the payment delay.
In a speech during the 26th General Assembly of the TTAG held at the St. Francis College of Education in Hohoe in the Volta Region, the association’s national president, Jonathan Dzunu, revealed that about 7 months of trainee teachers’ allowance was still unpaid.
According to him, the 2021/22 academic year’s arrears run from January to July 2022.
He lamented that “Looking at the current economic hardship in the country, you can imagine the difficulty students are going through, life on campus without allowance has become very unbearable for us.”
It is our view that the colossal delay in payment of allowances is going to send the clock backwards and the little successes chalked as a result of the implementation of the teacher trainees’ allowance whittled away, taking into consideration the historical antecedent that led to the implementation of the allowance scheme and the positive effect it has had on teacher education in particular and basic education in general over the years,” Mr Dzunu added.
Mr Dzunu also called attention to the growing dissatisfaction of student instructors and warned of an impending food scarcity that is expected to affect colleges of education in the coming weeks.
He claimed that because the institutions couldn’t pay for earlier supplies, vendors were reluctant to give them food.
Due to the nation’s current economic problems, he encouraged the government to refrain from using the teacher trainees’ allowance as a lamb sacrifice, adding that “utmost priority should be placed on the payment of teacher trainees’ allowance.”
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
