GES takes steps to effect prompt payment of teachers' salaries

Accra (Greater Accra) 19 May ?99

The Ghana Education Service (GES) and the Controller and Accountant-General are discussing the possibility of getting salaries of fresh teachers lodged with the Regional Directorates while their postings are being sorted out to avoid unusual delay.

A statement issued in Accra on Wednesday and signed by Professor Christopher Ameyaw-Akumfi, Director-General of GES, said they are making arrangements for manual payment of the initial salaries of newly trained teachers from the regions pending eventual mechanisation.

The statement said delay in payment of initial salaries of newly trained teachers is partly caused by the teachers themselves.

"Delays in assumption of duty by these teachers also create undue delays in the completion, submission and internal processing of Integrated Personnel Payroll Database (IPPD) forms."

It advised Principals of teacher training colleges to sensitize their students through induction courses to accept postings to their stations.

The statement said, last year, submission of completed IPPD forms to Headquarters commenced within the first month of re-opening.