GHANA EDUCATION SERVICE SUED BY TEACHERS FOR AN UNPAID SALARY ARREARS IN EASTERN REGION
A High Court in Koforidua has ordered that a number of vehicles belonging to the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Eastern Region be auctioned to settle a judgement debt of GH¢3,471,240.72. This Court verdict came as a result of GES not willing to pay teachers’ GH¢3.5M salary arrears.
The case was brought before the court by 102 teachers in the Eastern Region who are owed salary arrears by the government for more than five years.
Justice Gifty Dekyem, the Presiding Judge directed the Ghana Police Service to see to it that, they protect and assist the bailiffs to execute the courts order.
Two Toyota cars; Land Cruiser with registration number GC 5985-20 and Toyota pickup GV 778-20 belonging to the Eastern Regional Education Director and Regional Accountant have been impounded respectively.
However the Municipal Director of Education for Birim South, managed to escape with the keys of the car without any trace.
According to Eric Effah Darko the leader of the group, they are willing to forgo the interest on the salary arrears due them and that, they only need their money.
“Our lawyer was fighting for the interest for us but we said they were our employers so just fight for our money for us… because they were our employers, we wanted to make things soft for them,” Mr. Darko said.
The Eastern Regional Education Directorate is yet to respond or comment to this intriguing incident.
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