In utter discontent over failed promises by the government, the National Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) staged a walkout on the Deputy Education Minister, Prof Kingsley Nyarko, and their national leadership for reneging on a promise to provide a laptop each to teachers across the country.
The government in 2021 deducted 30 percent of teachers’ salaries to undertake the “one teacher one laptop” project. However, the teachers claim over 50 thousand of their colleagues nationwide have not received their laptops despite paying for them.
Some teachers and members of the National Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers booed the Deputy Minister for Education, Prof. Kingsley Nyarko, at their annual National Council Meeting in Kumasi.
They prevented the deputy minister from delivering his speech on behalf of the government as the council prepared to open their week-long annual meeting.
The opening ceremony of the Council’s meeting was consequently disrupted.
The teachers are demanding that the government fulfils its “One Teacher One Laptop” initiative after making the teachers pay for them. “
The GNAT and two other teacher unions in May this year embarked on a nationwide strike to demand better service conditions.
The National Labour Commission which served as a mediator gave the government June ending to honour its part of the contract by supplying the outstanding.
source: myjoyonline
