The Coalition of Unemployed Graduates with Disabilities has given the government a one-week ultimatum to recruit its qualified members who applied during the recent Ghana Education Service (GES) recruitment exercise.

The group says none of the 200 qualified persons with disabilities whose details were submitted to the government was employed in the exercise, despite assurances that a 5% quota for persons with disabilities in public sector recruitment would be implemented.

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Speaking on Channel One News on August 2, 2026, spokesperson for the Coalition, Gilbert Boateng-Adjare, said the group expected the GES recruitment to serve as a test case for the government’s commitment to the quota system.

He explained that before the recruitment process began, the Coalition, in collaboration with the Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations, compiled and submitted a list of certified and qualified teachers with disabilities to the Ministry of Education.

According to him, the applicants had passed the teacher licensure examinations and completed their respective programmes at tertiary institutions and colleges of education.

“We were assured of getting that 5 percent quota allocation or 5 percent quota slots,” he said, adding that the Coalition expected at least 350 positions out of the 7,000 teachers recruited to be allocated to persons with disabilities.

He, however, said none of the 200 names submitted by the group was considered in the final recruitment process.

“We thought that government or GES would do us the favour of recruiting all of our members into the teaching service because since we are not even up to the 5 percent quota,” he added.

Boateng-Adjare said many members of the group had remained unemployed for several years, with some waiting for between five and ten years despite being qualified teachers.

“...Let me also state that the majority of our people that we are talking about, some of them have been in the house for years, 10 years, 8 years, 5 years and what have you,” he lamented.

Boateng-Adjare argued that persons with disabilities faced additional barriers in accessing employment opportunities, making it necessary for government institutions to ensure their inclusion.

He warned that if their concerns were not addressed by August 10, 2026, members would protest.

“If they fail to do that, next week, that is on August 10, we will occupy the seat of government, we will occupy the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to press on our demands ahead,” he added.

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