GNAT members walk out on Kingsley Nyarko over govt’s ‘one teacher, one laptop’ initiative

Members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) walked out on the Deputy Education Minister, Prof Kingsley Nyarko, to express their disappointment over the government’s failed promise of providing laptops to teachers nationwide.

According to GNAT, there is growing resentment among its members as they urge the government to immediately address their concerns.

The government in 2021 deducted 30% of teachers’ salaries to undertake the “one teacher, one laptop” project.

According to the aggrieved teachers, over 50,000 of their colleagues nationwide have not received their laptops despite paying for them.

Some teachers and members of the National Council of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) hooted at the Deputy Minister for Education and prevented him from delivering his speech on behalf of the government as the council prepared to open their week-long annual meeting.

Teachers shared their daily ordeal in the classroom due to the absence of laptops and how teaching and learning are interrupted.

District Chairman of GNAT, Afigya Kwabre, Sarfo Sarpong, on behalf of the group, told journalists that “Over two and half years now, some of our members haven’t received their laptops. Mainly some teachers at the kindergarten, education officers, and the Arabic teachers and some primary school teachers.”

He added that “National Labour Commission serving as a mediator gave government June ending to honour its part of the contract by supplying the outstanding. Today, July 22, there are still over 50,000 laptops left to be supplied.”

Source: Doris Lonta

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