The National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) has issued a two-day ultimatum to the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) to release the frozen salaries of some of its members or face the wrath of the association.
NAGRAT disclosed that,the salaries of over 400 teachers have been frozen by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
However, the OSP says that it was looking into “ghost names” associated with government payrolls.
President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu, who in an interview with Accra-base Joy Fm noted that there is insufficient evidence to deny their members their salaries.
He warned that if the OSP does not release the locked-up salaries by Friday, February 16, 2024, the association will be obliged to take other actions.
“When you’re auditing somebody until the audit is completed and you have conclusively arrived, indicating that A, B, and C are not qualified to earn a salary, you don’t go ahead to inflict purge.
“He [the Special Prosecutor] has not finished prosecuting people who have been given bribes in elections and things like that, it is not poor teachers that he is coming to zero in on,” he said.
“If he does not defreeze the salaries by Friday, he will have to be blamed for whatever happens after Friday,” Mr Carbonu threatened.
Background
The OSP directed the suspension of the payment of the salaries of 800 teachers in the Northern Region.The OSP decided after identifying infractions and subsequently commencing investigations into the matter.
But the General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), Thomas Musah Tanko, disclosed this exclusively to 3News that are giving the Ghana Education Service (GES) and the OSP five working days to ensure the salaries are paid or risk agitations.