- Nana Yaa Jantuah urges gov't to address CETAG's concerns.
- Gov't withholds CETAG's July salary, leading to strike.
- Strike is over delayed implementation of labour agreements.
- Education Minister claims progress, but CETAG unsatisfied.
Nana Yaa Jantuah, former General Secretary of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), has urged the government to address the concerns of the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) immediately. She emphasized that the prolonged strike is hurting the students of the colleges of education, hence the need for swift action.
Nana Yaa Jantuah stated that the government must be serious with teachers and find the money to pay them as agreed. She stressed that it is not good for any government to act after the strike, and what is due to the teachers should be given to them.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has said that the government has made strides in addressing the issues of CETAG. He told journalists in Accra on Wednesday, July 24, after an engagement with stakeholders, that “we have made great progress, we have made giant strides.”
However, CETAG withdrew all services following the government’s decision to withhold their July salary. The government’s decision was in response to CETAG’s ongoing strike, which was called to register their grievance over the government’s delay in implementing the National Labour Commission’s Arbitral Award Orders.
The Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) had directed the Controller and Accountants General to freeze the July salary of CETAG members, describing the strike as illegal. CETAG’s leadership has referred the directive to freeze their July salaries to their lawyers to take necessary action, emphasizing that they will not back down until their grievances are resolved.
