Eastern Regional High Court has ordered the Eastern Regional Ghana Education Service Directorate to sell some properties belonging to the Ghana Education Service to settle a judgment debt of GH3, 471,240.72 for teachers’ salary arrears.
This directive is a result of a case brought to the Koforidua High Court by 102 teachers whose salaries have been in arrears for more than five years now by the Ghana Education Service in the Eastern Region.
The report has shown that the Regional Education Director and his Regional Accountant Car have been impounded by the police following the directive of the judge who presided over the case.
Sources also say the Municipal Director of Birim south whose car was also located but managed to run away with the keys.
The leader of the Aggrieved teachers who took the case to court to demand their salary arrears, Mr. Eric Effah Darko spoke on Citi news and said he and the group were even willing to forgo the interest accrued on the salary arrears because they feel GES is their employer. What they only demanded was their salary arrears and not the interest.
Background.
The majority of Teachers under the Ghana Education Service salaries have been in arrears for over six years now but their unions have failed to fight for these teachers to the extent some of these teachers have to take it upon themselves to fight for their salaries