Education Minister, Haruna Iddrisu has indicated that graduate teachers who are picketing at the Ghana Education Service over unpaid wages and salaries were not employed through the right channels.
According to him, the previous government employed some 39,000 teachers without any form of financial clearance.
The current government, according to the Minister, is currently engaged in some auditing and will only employ about 12,000 of the 39,000 who have been employed by the previous government after the audit. "Appointment letters were issued to persons numbering up to 39,000 when there was no financial clearance to do that.
That is problematic, so of the 39,000, probably the government may be able to absolve nine, eleven, or twelve thousand, but certainly not 39,000.
