Kumasi (Ashanti Region) - Thirty-five Zonal Supervisors of the Non-formal Education Division (NFED) of the Ministry of Education in five districts in

Ashanti have jointly petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) over the placement of an embargo on their salaries by their respective District Chief Executives (DCEs).

The districts are Ahafo-Ano South, Asante-Akim North, Sekyere East, Afigya-Sekyere and Amansie West. The embargo is believed to have been based on suspicion that the affected supervisors falsified their academic qualifications to obtain salary levels they did not merit leading to financial loss to the state.

In their petition, the supervisors stated that they were employed in 1994 to fill the vacuum created by the withdrawal of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) from the World Bank sponsored Adult Literacy Programme in 1993. They maintained that their appointments were based on merit and performance and after successful interviews.

The supervisors claimed that their upgrading to their various salary levels came after four years of intensive training while in employment, adding that, during the period they neither enjoyed annual leave nor promotions. They said since 1998, they had not been given any incremental jump in respect of their salaries although other public service employees enjoy the facility. For about six months now embargo was placed on their salaries.