The Ministry of Education has assured Parliament that all teachers employed by the Ghana Education Service (GES) who are awaiting financial clearance will soon be fully engaged.
The assurance came in response to a question from the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee, Abena Osei Asare, who sought clarification on why some teachers had not received payment after eight months.
Mrs. Osei Asare expressed satisfaction that education authorities were demonstrating a commitment to resolving the issue.
Deputy Education Minister Dr. Clement Apaak, who led the ministry’s team to the hearing, assured Parliament that efforts were ongoing to address the matter. He agreed with the committee chair that the affected teachers were entitled to their employment as citizens serving the nation.
“Honourable Chair, I agree with you entirely. These are Ghanaians. They are our relatives, our sons and daughters, and our constituents. I can assure you that the Honourable Minister has been working assiduously to secure the needed clearance for this issue to be resolved,” Dr. Apaak said.
He added that the Education Minister had been in constant communication with the Finance Ministry and Parliament as part of efforts to tackle the challenge.
However, GES Director-General, Professor Ernest Davis noted that of the 15,755 teachers granted financial clearance since last year, 10,112 had been successfully processed, leaving nearly 6,000 teachers “for one reason or another.”
According to him, the current GES management, which assumed office earlier this year, inherited an ongoing process that had already onboarded about 6,000 teachers. The exercise was subsequently paused, and affected applicants were asked to reactivate their clearances to secure postings.