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Veep condemns GNAT’s attempt to justify Teacher absenteeism

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  • Student papa 9 years ago

    GNAT only knows strikes. Loud noise on the roof tops. No discipline for their members.

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 9 years ago

    If you employ a teacher and do not pay him for 12 months, the one will be stupid to go to work always and give up one's best. Do Mps not complain when their common funds payments are delayed? Modern teachers are not like the ...
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  • USMAN 9 years ago

    Majority of teachers in the GES are university graduates. They even have an association called National Asociation of Graduate Teachers and so what do you expect.

  • Otwi 9 years ago

    You are a fool. Do you think teachers not paid for over a year and half will go to school? Wont they eat,pay light bill,wear clothes to school? What has university or NAGRAT got to do with this. Stupid fool

  • Joshua Okyere 9 years ago

    veep shouldn't get us annoyed what do he expect us to use for our rent, transportation etc when he is not paying what he own us. The government is owning me one year and I don't know of other people

  • skuul boy 9 years ago

    Joshua, wo akyerew brofo bone, nanso yete ase

  • Joshua Okyere 9 years ago

    hahaha abi here u feel write anytin , am just annoyed with these nonsense that's going on. how many MPs mpo na ek) sitting

  • kwame sarpong,mampong ashanti 9 years ago

    Amisah Athur indeed!

  • Mohammed. 9 years ago

    Ei vice hmmmm, 2016 is just around the corner n we the teachers will show ur incompetent party where the power lies.

  • BANDIT 9 years ago

    OBJECTION, your Excellency. In the absence of any known or established Industry Benchmark on Teacher Absenteeism, the VP ought not to have been so harshly categorical in his condemnation, as he who wears the shoe knows where ...
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  • Kokoliko 9 years ago

    Are we serious as a country? If you employ and refused to pay salaries, what do you expect? Any cockroach can sit in an office and say he will not pay over 2000 teachers and nobody sees the danger such decision can pose to ou ...
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  • alex sarpong,obuasi 9 years ago

    The per diem for travelling to cape coast to read that stupid speech is more than the salaries of three average teachers put together

  • Joe Turkey 9 years ago

    Hey, there is a world of difference between reality and idealism. The man spoke the truth.

  • Otwi 9 years ago

    Joe or whoever,keep quiet over there. Do you know many teachers haven't got paid for more than a year and many months?
    Do you expect that teacher to starve and go to work? How does he even pay his rent and utility bills, You ...
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  • f q amegah ex minister ghana 9 years ago

    The english that is coming from some of our so called teachers is soo disturbing!

  • Otwi 9 years ago

    Stupid amegah, what is bad about the English written?

  • Otwi 9 years ago

    What is so bad about the English I wrote,
    ex minister indeed!

  • Joshua Okyere 9 years ago

    I agree with u but is soo annoying but if u were to be part of this like maybe you would be holding a gun. do u know how much people have invested in their education ? n after all these work for 2 years without pay. no rent a ...
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  • Joshua Okyere 9 years ago

    which man r u talking abt ? if is d veep he has no right to even open his month to say those words that I don't want to describe. u employ someone for 2 years n have not paid d person u expect that employee to be at post alwa ...
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  • max the teacher 9 years ago

    just imagine the gross disrespect dis vice president is showing to teachers. are teachers machines, don't people fall sick some times. can he go to work himself if he has a funeral in his house? how can you assume dat when a ...
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  • Betty 9 years ago

    Will sm1 pls tell d Veep 2 exchange office wt a tr just 4 a month and c if he can cope with d stiuations trs re facing does he think trs hv it on a plater of siliver or are enjoying d work

  • saco saviour church 9 years ago

    veep t3kyer3ma kakaraka k0

  • zoomy kwacha 9 years ago

    Mr. Veep..... I wonder if you have been a teacher before??? What do you do at office? Stop getting on our nerve oo wofa amissah

  • ziggy 9 years ago

    stupid talk if u hv bn posted to a village n nt hvin room or hse to rent...who suppose to acquare these things..u always thinks of ur welbeing leaving trs posted to deprived areas...no bunglos for dem...Amissah revise ur spee ...
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  • Abena Agyeiwah 9 years ago

    Teachers are mothers and fathers, they also have family and other social issues to address so Veep give them a break. Teachers are not alive for teaching job all alone.

  • Otwi 9 years ago

    We haven't got paid for over a year and you want us to crawl,starve to school?
    aboa gyimiii

  • Boadi 9 years ago

    Stupid vice President. Ugly vice like gorilla.

  • Tantra Bea 9 years ago

    Is that man correct by preaching vice? That is where he got it wrong. Even if a few teachers have good reasons for absenting themselves, it is wrong for a leader to openly propagate it.

  • James 9 years ago

    He should go to the teaching profession and experience what teachers are going
    through and see whether he can even go to school three times a week. He should better close that his mouth.

  • kofi Eric 9 years ago

    James who forced u to be a teacher...? No job is easy OK...u need to sacrifice... some of u teachers are too lazy n u are killing the children... don't forget the vice president was once a teacher... if u do your work well Go ...
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  • Joshua Okyere 9 years ago

    go out there n find out n u will see that those who r not attending work is d ones who r not being paid. to talk of it if u r a father n can't take care of ur children how do u expect them to be home ? when those politicians ...
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  • kofi Eric 9 years ago

    Ghanaian teachers have to be more serious with there work.... excuse me some of them are just too lazy....especially the government school teachers ... .it's just too bad

  • Kofi Annan 9 years ago

    What is the Veep saying? I was posted to teach in a village in October 2012. We are in October 2014 and I have not received even one cedi as salary. I guess I am suppose to chew stones and go to school, sleep in the classroom ...
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  • hon mahadin wa 9 years ago

    Please have we in ghana ever heard of absenttism in the banking sector?Let's not pretend there's no job satisfaction in the service.Please about 90% of teachers today are in the profession not because of self fulfilment but a ...
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  • TIMOTHY K. AYOMBIL 9 years ago

    PROVIDING DECENT ACCOMMODATION FOR TEACHER AT EVERY LEVEL OF EDUCATION IS KEY TO PREVENTING TEACHER ABSENTEEISM.

  • BB 9 years ago

    Teachers only like complaining n comparing themselves with others and now d rate of performance is failing as anything.Pls u have to sit up

  • Bro k 9 years ago

    was he not the same Veep who was sleeping at a certain event? He was scratching his mouth.

  • Best Teacher 9 years ago

    Interestingly,my casual observation is that it isn't the unpaid teachers that absent themselves from the classrooms, but those that are.
    Absenteesm is common in the first week of the month when 'cash dey'. Guess what they us ...
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  • Liars! 9 years ago

    You are MAD!

  • OLD TEACHER 9 years ago

    Teachers absenteeism is inexcusable but to every rule there is an exception and because of this assertion some bad nuts have made it a privilege.
    A teacher has eight hours a day to be in school, after school, prepare the nex ...
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  • Liars! 9 years ago

    Be realistic, Mr Vice President! It takes at least seven months for most newly recruited teachers to receive their first salary, which of course is miserable by all standards! There are several of them still waiting desolatel ...
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