National Service: TTAG kicked against, hits streets on Wed.
The National Executive Council of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) has resolved to go on a demonstration to register its members’ displeasure against the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) for failing to directly employ newly-trained teachers for the 2018/19 academic year.
Speaking in an interview with Ekow Budu-Sam on Atinka mid-day news, a member of the National Executive Council and TTAG president for Ashanti and Brong Ahafo regions, Abu Saddick Mohammed, said teachers are not ready to do any one-year mandatory national service before being absorbed into permanent employment, and it’s a decision they have kicked against.
A statement dated Monday, 5 November 2018, signed by Anthony Dadzie and Ibrahim Nketia, President and General Secretary, respectively, of TTAG, said: “It is important to note that the leadership of the association has exhausted all possible avenues in ensuring that the government does the needful by employing the 2018 batch of the newly-trained teachers but they have proved futile.
According to Saddick, all newly-trained teachers are to converge on the Obra Spot at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle on Wednesday, 7 November 2018 at exactly 8:00 am to begin a peaceful protest through the Adabraka Police Station road to Hearts Park, where a petition will be presented to the office of the president.
He therefore urge all continuing students who will not be able to join the protest to put on red armbands to lectures on Wednesday.
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