CHIEF OF STAFF OFFICE FINGERED

…As Science Teachers Allowance Is ‘Swallowed’ Up

By : Julian Owusu-Abedi

The clandestine attempt by the foreign travels unit at the Chief of Staff office to maneuver and obliterate the evidence of cash allowance due some science teachers has been uncovered.

This expose` comes as a shocking surprise because of the government’s own perceived posturing of it’s support for the agenda of promoting the scientific community to enhance national development and the living conditions of Ghanaians as it recently opened the first ever national science congress in Accra.

In spite of that, a seven member group of science teachers drawn from across most of the regions in Ghana plus two leaders of delegation from the Science Research Unit of the Ministry of Education who embarked on a Primary Science and Mathematics Teacher Educators’ Training Programme in Malaysia last August 2011, under the auspices of Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) is finding it very difficult to comprehend and accept the reason why a government which appears to have affinity and empathy for science teachers will deny them their per diem after a year of unabated efforts to get their due.

JICA took care of the round trip, hotel accommodation and the teachers training course and all that was expected of government is to pay the science teachers some allowance for the one month they were away.

In an interview with this reporter to iron out the issue and to throw some light on it, Mrs. Georgina Quayson, head of the science resource unit of the education service said that her outfit which was charged with the responsibility to assist in the process did all they could to facilitate it “Since the whole programme which was also free was aimed at training our teachers to know the modern ways of teaching science in the third world in order that we may catch up with the rest of the world.”

She lamented that“It’s unfortunate that all our attempts through the protocol unit of the Ministry of Education to get the allowance released to the teachers since their arrival a year ago has proved futile.”

Speaking in a separate interview with Mr. Adarkwa, head of protocol at the Ministry of Education Service who has also been monitoring this issue and following it up at the castle said, the chief of staff’s office is arguing on the grounds that the groups letter which was presented to the castle and signed by Alex Tetteh Enyo the then Minister of Education was two weeks late and that technically the teachers request falls out of governments favor.

However, The New Crusading GUIDE has other documents which proves otherwise to those claims which makes the issue of two weeks late or two weeks early as argued by the Chief of Staff office pretty irrelevant… some teachers have got o be paid their due.

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