How a Retired Teacher Retrieved Over GHC80,000 of 10 Years Unpaid Salaries Through Court (Flash Back)
Can you work ten (10) years without pay?
Do you know the effect of no salary for 10 years on pension benefits?
Can you afford a lawyer to fight for your 10-year salary, with or without a salary?
From bureaucracy to victimisation to ‘give it to God syndrome’, a lot of government workers have their earned salaries unpaid. William Azure Akologo also gave his earned salaries of ten (10) years to God in an interview in 2019 with GBC’s Peter Agengre and said, ‘I prefer to die’. Mr. William Azure Akologo was successfully re-engaged by Ghana Education Service in September 2003 but had not been paid up to 2013 when he retired. Adding salt to injury, the complications of not receiving salaries for those ten (10) years affected his pension benefits.
How a Retired Teacher Retrieved Over GHC80,000 of 10 Years Unpaid Salaries Through Court (Flash Back) -Full Story
In a twist of things, Mr. William Azure, together with his counsel, Lamtiig Apanga Esq, filled out a letter of sermons against the Ghana Education Service and the Attorney General, seeking an order of payment of Mr. Azure’s accumulated salaries. In a consent judgement in favour of Mr. Azure, the defendants have been directed to pay Mr. Azure GHC82,211.42.
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The fear now is whether this retired teacher would be paid his earned salary early enough to enjoy the fruits of his labour, no matter how late it came, or whether it would have to take another legal battle to enforce the udgment. Even with this particular case, the public could only assume how much the lawyer would take out of the judgement amount. The very reason the public must demand the Ghana School of Law be opened up for less privilege is to have access to lawyers at a lower fee. The case was filed at the High Court of Justice (Labour Division), Accra. Mr. William Azure Akologo last taught at Kongo Primary School in the Upper East region.