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Teachers mount pressure as GES starts nationwide validation exercise of newly recruited staff

WISDOM K.E HAMMOND 3 weeks ago

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has officially started its nationwide validation exercise of newly recruited staff into the service. The process is expected to end on 14th April. It will capture all newly posted staff at post to ensure their salaries and other benefits are regularised and paid, including all pending arears.

Teachers whose salaries have not been paid since they were posted in 2024 are demanding urgent action from the GES to ensure their staff IDs are released and their salaries in arears are paid in full by the government.

The group have made two improtant request which if implemented will save the situation. These include the call for the processing and release of Staff IDs to facilitate payroll access for those who have already assumed duty and the need for prompt payment of salaries for affected staff who are actively rendering services in classrooms and offices, often under considerable financial strain.

This was contained in a press release by aggried posted teachers sighted by the Ghana Education News portal.

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Below is the full press release from the aggreived and affected teachers

5th April, 2025.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The Ghana Education Service (GES), through its official letter dated 5th March 2025, initiated a nationwide validation exercise for newly recruited staff. This process, which concluded on 14th March 2025, required affected staff to submit key documents, including:

1. Appointment Letters

2. Academic Certificates

3. Licensure Certificates

4. National Service Certificates

We complied fully and in good faith, and we commend the regional validation teams for the diligent work they carried out during the period. Based on the clarity and intent of the directive and the smooth execution of the validation process, we believe the exercise has achieved its objective.

We are therefore respectfully calling on the Ghana Education Service, stakeholders and all relevant authorities to urgently proceed with the next critical steps.

Specifically, we request:

1. Processing and release of Staff IDs to facilitate payroll access for those who have already assumed duty.

2. Prompt payment of salaries for affected staff who are actively rendering services in classrooms and offices, often under considerable financial strain.

It is our understanding that the validation exercise was not an end in itself but part of a broader effort to regularise and reinstate eligible professionals. Any prolonged delay in issuing postings, IDs, or salary payments risks dampening both morale and the momentum already built.

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As dedicated educators, we remain eager to contribute meaningfully to national development through our teaching and service. We trust that the leadership of the Ghana Education Service will act promptly to complete the process it has initiated, and we remain fully ready to cooperate in ensuring a smooth conclusion.

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