Nkwanta, Aug. 9, GNA - The Controller and Accountant General Department (CAGD) is yet to regularize the salaries of 98 new teachers posted to the Nkwanta and Hohoe districts of the Volta Region on its pay roll.

The affected teachers, 52 for Nkwanta and 36 for Hohoe districts respectively were posted in 2005/2006.

Reverend Ernest Gaewu, Nkwanta District Director of Education, told the Ghana News Agency that the situation had arisen because of the change from the Integrated Personal Payroll Data-base (IPPD) one and two that did not capture the affected teachers.

Rev Gaewu was reacting to concerns raised by the Deputy General-Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Mr John Nyoagbe at a workshop at Hohoe, last Friday. He said some of the teachers posted in 2006 and all those posted in 2007 had their arrears adjusted and paid leaving the 2005 group still in financial limbo.

Rev Gaewu said all inputs and pay history had been forwarded to CAGD.

He appealed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Ministry of Finance and CAGD to find a practical technology that would facilitate the smooth upgrading of the salaries of new teachers whose results have been declared by the Professional Board of the Institute of Education of Cape Coast University.

Mr Samuel Oyiadzo, Officer in-charge of the Hohoe IPPD at GES Directorate in Accra, said with the exception of the 2005 group, all others in the 2006/2007 groups have had the anomaly corrected and 109 new teachers are yet to be posted in the district.