The Minister of Education finally broke the silence on the unpaid

       The Minister of Education, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu has addressed the university graduates teachers who displayed certain actions on the forecourt of the Ministry of Education.

         The teachers displayed this actions due to the unpaid salaries. The aggrieved teachers thronged the premises in large numbers to demand staff IDs for teachers already at posts.They bemoaned the delay in the validation process, which they said had resulted in five months of unpaid salaries.

        Upon seeing their display, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu finally broke the silence. He said”the Ministry did not have financial clearance for the 39,000 teachers who had been posted by the previous government so whoever misled or deceived you, it wasn’t the John Mahama and Haruna Iddrisu administration”. He said “somebody might have deceptively got a number of people unknowingly tied to some form of recruitment, which was not legitimately approved.

       Therefore they are auditing to confirm that you have the right qualifications, are entitled to the appointment, and are actually at post. From there, we will pick those we can absorb within the budget. Hon. Haruna Iddrisu explained that the government could not absorb all 39,000 teachers, and that a validation process would be carried out to determine which teachers could be employed in the meantime.

       The Tamale South MP says “If that exercise is not complete, then I have no story to tell you. You will have to be patient until we finish the validation exercise,”. He added that the government can only pic 9,000, 11’000 or maximum 12,000 and not 39,000 teachers.