Retired teacher continues to draw salary

The Akim Oda Police has arrested a teacher, who resigned from his employment in June 2001 but continued to draw his monthly salary from the Ghana Education Service (GES).

Godwin Annan, a former technical instructor at the Akyem Ayirebi Local Authority Junior Secondary School in the Birim North District, was said to have left the teaching service and later had an employment with the Cape Coast branch of Ghana Telecom.

A GNA report quotes a Police spokesman at Akim Oda on Tuesday as saying that the suspect continued to enjoy his monthly salary from the GES from June 2001 to January 2002 when he was arrested upon a tip-off.

The suspect, who collected a total of 10.9 million cedis from the Nkawkaw branch of the Agriculture Development Bank (ADB), has since been granted bail pending further investigations.