Screening of teaching and non-teaching staff of GES begins in Kumasi

Kumasi, July 18, GNA - Employee Census Validation Exercise, under which 4,796 teachers and other educational workers of the Ghana Education Service (GES) in the Kumasi Metropolis are being screened, has begun. Out of this figure, 1,541 comprising 521 teaching and non-teaching men and 1,020 teaching and non-teaching women are in the Asokwa Sub-Metro.

Mr Samuel Mensah, Administrator at the Asokwa Sub-Metro Office of GES, announced this when he addressed the teaching and non-teaching staff of the GES to explain the rational behind the exercise to them. The exercise, being jointly undertaken by the Ministry of Education and the Controller and Accountant-General's Department (CAGD), he said, was also intended to give an accurate reliable and true staffing position of the GES and help the CAGD to update its records. Mr Mensah, therefore, charged the teaching and non-teaching staff not to do anything that might affect the successful implementation of the exercise.

Miss Beatrice Ohene Agyei, Headmistress of Chirapatre Roman Catholic Primary School on behalf of her colleagues assisting the staff of the CAGD, pledged to be honest and sincere to make the exercise a success since the "ghost names" on the pay rolls constituted a major drain of the coffers of the government.