In pursuant to the recent release referenced TTAG/RLSE/21/006 on August
27.2021, dubbed UPDATE ON THE ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN THE
MINISTER FOR EDUCATION AND THE LEADERSHIP OF TTAG. The
leadership in the quest to ensure that trainees are accorded prompt solutions
have always been in touch with stakeholders in fulfillment of their promises.
As stated in their earlier release, trainees were promised that by 8th September
2021, a guide would be given by the Ministry of Education on how the payment
would be done. The latest development from the leadership’s engagement is
that: the Minister for Education has directed the Director General for Ghana
Tertiary Education Commission(GTEC) to withhold an equivalent amount of
the feeding component that has been paid, and those that are yet to be paid for
the entire period trainees were not in school from the processed ones. pending
the Minister’s engagement with PRINCOF and TTAG to discuss the way
forward on the payment. It is expected that the final engagement with the
stakeholders will be done by the end of this month.
That notwithstanding. the National Executive Council in its recent meeting has
come out with the next line of action that will be fully executed if all diplomatic
means are exhausted without any favorable resolution.
TTAG is through this release informing all trainees that the leadership is in
continuous engagement with all stakeholders on this and many other issues