Teaching assistants not paid for eight months

Fifty Teaching Assistants employed under the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) in the Suhum Kraboa Coaltar District had not been paid for the past eight months.

Mr Joseph Brafo, a Teaching Assistant, told the GNA after a emergency meeting the teachers held at Sowatey near Suhum on Thursday that apart from not receiving their allowances they had also not been issued with appointment letters.

Mr Brafo said the National Secretariat was also demanding that every Teaching Assistant should pay GH¢10 every month from their allowances.

He said anytime the District Coordinator of the scheme, Mr David Livingstone, was contacted he would tell them that the government had released the money to the banks awaiting disbursement but when the banks were contacted they denied receiving any money.

Mr Brafo said most of the Teaching Assistants just completed schooling and had no sources of income and that some of them had to travel long distances to teach.

He said due to that unfortunate situation some landlords had threatened to eject the Teaching Assistants from their rented premises.

Source: GNA