Don’t picket, have patience, Okudzeto entreats teacher trainees

Former Deputy Minister of Education and Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Akudjeto Ablakwa, has entreated Teacher Trainees in the country not to resort to picketing at the ministries as means of getting their grievances addressed.

This follows threats by the Teacher-Trainees Association of Ghana (TTAG) to besiege the Education Ministry over unpaid feeding grants.

An Executive member, Francis Tende, says TTAG had visited the Ministry over four times to demand the payment of the grants, “but it seems things are not going on well. The association has therefore taken it upon itself to picket for the early release of the monies, and we want our principals to be at the forefront, since many students owe the colleges.”

He was speaking at the 7th Students Representative Council (SRC) week celebrations of the Akatsi College of Education in the Volta Region.

 

In reaction to the intended picketing, the former minister who was a guest at the occasion asked the trainees teachers to exercise patience, because the new Akufo-Addo administration is yet to find its footing on many grievances that were left unresolved by the previous administration.

“I have been at the ministry of Education for four years and I know how difficult it is. They are a very young government and already they are struggling with what your colleagues in the nursing institutions are doing to them and if you go and add to them, it will be a nightmare.”

He also called on the students to stick to the dialogue table and asked government to expedite action to release the funds for the trainees.