Teachers association blasts salary increase and calls for a rise

Asaasebomebosea (Ashanti), 25th June 99 ?

Mr Kwame Amo-Dako, President of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), has called on the government to raise salaries of all workers as soon as the Pricewater House report is implemented at the end of this month.

Mr Amo-Dako made the call when the GNAT and Swedish Teachers Association presented furniture worth 8.5 million cedis to Assasebomebosea and Ayease Local Authority primary schools.

He described as unacceptable the minimum wage of 2,900 cedis a day, adding "it is time something more encouraging is given to workers to propel them to work hard".

Mr Amo-Dako said the presentation marked the end of the 1998 phase of a six-year GNAT/Swedish Teachers furniture project, which he said, had generally been successful.

He appealed to the government to focus attention on improving the essential elements of education such as good classrooms with furniture to enhance teaching.

Mr Okoffo Boadi Boampong, assistant director of administration who deputised for the district chief executive, entreated parents to be prepared to invest in the education of their children.

He called for community support in motivating teachers to perform creditably in the classroom.

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