GNAT Employees were School Placement for sale fraud middle men –  MoE PRO (Facts Out as GNAT sets the record straight

GNAT PRO “bites” MoE PRO on School Placement Fraud at the Ministry. According to Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, GNAT Employees were School Placement for sale fraud middle men captured in the Fourth Estate investigative piece. This was disclosed by the PRO while granting audience to Joy FM’s Super Morning Show on Monday, February 20th, 2023.

The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has reacted to a statement made by the PRO of the Ministry of Education, Mr. Kwasi Kwateng’s that the supposed cleaners mentioned in the School Placement for sale investigative piece do not work at the Ministry of Education but rather they were employees of GNAT.

According to GNAT, it is dismayed and appalled by the PRO’s attempt to engage in damage control gimmicks, blame shifting and to distance the MoE from the fraud revealed by the Fourth Estate.

“We want to place it on record that we gave our Bediako Conference Hall, and not the GNAT Hostel, to the GES for the exercise and sopped at that. Thus, we were in no way involved directly or indirectly in the work of the Placement Staff, neither were we involved with the staffing nor personnel who undertook the assignment” the press release by GNAT indicated.

GNAT furthered that the association only provided the MoE its facilities at the GNAT hall and that, GNAT is not in any way involved directly or indirectly in the school placement being undertaken by the Ministry.

The association has indicated that it is not enthused by the attempt by the MoE’s PRO to tarnish the image of the association.

“We deem this very unfortunate and unbecoming of a body with which we share a common aspiration of guaranteeing the country’s young ones a future of bliss and certainty through education.”

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“GNAT added that it was happy no member of the association was incriminated by the Fourth Estate and hopes that going into the future, the Ministry of Education would plug all loopholes, so that the exercise would not, in the words of Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng, be turned into a marketplace where officials linked to the exercise would exercise their mandate through a network of intermediaries, such as security guards, cleaners as exposed by the Fourth Estate.”

It also called on the GES to rebuke Mr. Kwasi Kwarteng to refrain from dragging the image of the Association into disrepute on any platform.