Over 100,000 teachers yet to get their laptops since 2021 – GNAT president

The President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Rev, Isaac Owusu, has raised concerns about the viability of the Ghana Smart School Project, which was launched on Monday, March 25, 2024.

According to the GNAT president, seeing that since 2021, when the government rolled out a similar initiative for teachers, known as the 1 Teacher 1 Laptop project, over 100,000 teachers from public schools have yet to receive theirs.

Isaac Owusu said that since 2021, these over 100,000 teachers have not received their laptops although monies from their accounts have been deducted for them.

While answering questions, the GNAT president referred to one of the major concerns of the teachers, which is the failed distribution of laptops to them since 2021.

More than 100,000 teachers have not received the laptop, and what is the engineer talking about?” he fumed, the report indicated.

This claim is against what President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo said during the launch of the Smart School Project, where he stated that the Ministry of Education had already distributed 200,000 laptops to teachers in pre-tertiary institutions nationwide.

The Ghana Education Service has also indicated that as of December 2021, it had distributed about 80% of the total number of laptops to teachers in Senior High Schools under phase one of the project.