Members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) walked out on Deputy Education Minister Prof. Kingsley Nyarko to express their disappointment with the government for failing to deliver on its promise to provide laptops to teachers nationwide.
According to GNAT, resentment is growing among its members as they call on the government to address their concerns immediately.
In 2021, the government deducted 30% of teachers’ salaries to fund the “one teacher, one laptop” project. However, the aggrieved teachers claim that over 50,000 of their colleagues nationwide have not received the laptops they paid for.
At a recent event, some teachers and members of the GNAT National Council jeered at the Deputy Minister for Education and prevented him from delivering his speech on behalf of the government.
The incident occurred as the Council was preparing to open its week-long annual meeting.
Teachers shared their daily struggles in the classroom due to the absence of laptops, which they say disrupts teaching and learning.
Sarfo Sarpong, the District Chairman of GNAT in Afigya Kwabre, told journalists on behalf of the group, “For over two and a half years, some of our members, including kindergarten teachers, education officers, Arabic teachers, and some primary school teachers, have not received their laptops.”
He added, “The National Labour Commission, serving as a mediator, gave the government until the end of June to fulfill its part of the contract by supplying the outstanding laptops. Today, July 22, there are still over 50,000 laptops yet to be supplied.”
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