Efforts are being made to pay genuinely recruited new teachers — GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) says it is taking steps to ensure all genuinely recruited teachers who assumed duty in September 2024 are paid their due salaries.

This follows a protest by some newly trained teachers at the GES headquarters in Accra on Monday, June 23.

The aggrieved teachers, mostly from the 2022 batch of Colleges of Education graduates, lamented over the delayed issuance of Staff Identification Numbers (Staff IDs) and non-payment of salaries nearly ten months after they were posted.

GES, in a statement dated June 24 and signed by its Public Relations Officer, Daniel Fenyii, acknowledged the teachers’ concerns and outlined measures being taken to address them.

“In 2024, GES recruited 12,807 graduates from the Colleges of Education. As of December 2024, 9,950 of them had received Staff IDs and were paid,” the statement said.

“However, 2,113 had Staff IDs but could not be paid due to the expiration of financial clearance. An additional 582 teachers did not receive Staff IDs because of delays in documentation, including inconsistencies in SSNIT numbers, Ghana Card details and instances of self-reposting,” it added.

To address the issue, GES said it carried out a nationwide staff validation exercise in March 2025 to identify genuinely recruited teachers and clean up recruitment anomalies, as part of efforts to correct lapses captured in recent audit reports.

A technical committee has also been constituted to ensure prompt communication and coordination between GES and affected teachers.

According to the release, letters have been sent through the Education Minister to the Ministry of Finance to seek an extension of the expired financial clearance and secure funds for salary processing.

“Fortunately, a budgetary allocation was made in the 2025 budget statement.

“We assure all affected staff that every effort is being made to rectify the situation and ensure that all genuinely recruited teachers receive their due remuneration,” it stressed.