Salaries of 13,800 teachers blocked

Berlinda Entsie 09:58 - 04 May 2017

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Salaries of a huge number of teachers in the Ghana Education Sytem have had their salaries blocked as a result of a mistake from the Controller and Accountant General's Department

The Controller and Accountant Generals Department has mistakenly blocked salaries of April salary of nearly 14,000 teachers for the month of April

Officials of the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) say the mistake occurred when government was making attempts to clean the payroll of ghost names.

The biometric verification system enrolled to enforce that all public sector workers get validated by Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) is also blamed for the mistake

On May Day, President Nana Akufo-addo announced that close to 27,000 ghosts have been expunged from the payroll saving the country about GHS 450million.