Prof Mohammed Salifu, Executive Secretary, National Council for Tertiary Education (NCTE) has urged the striking teachers of the technical universities to help resolve their issues by providing the data needed.
According to him, unlike reports that the NCTE is deliberately delaying payment of the arrears, "we don’t have the data so we just need their corporation to get that done."
Speaking on Peace FM’s morning show 'Kokrokoo', Prof Salifu accused the lecturers of "acting in bad faith because they are not engaging in the issues that will lead to the payment of their allowances . . . I don’t get TUTAG’s position at all. They are entitled to whatever allowances they are talking about but there is a due process they need to go through . . . they should facilitate the submission of the data so that we can have this issue behind us."
Listen to his interview below
The Technical University Teachers Association of Ghana (TUTAG) are currently on strike over non-payment of some allowances
According to the association, the government has “refused to fully comply” with the ruling by the National Labour Commission (NLC) to ensure that members of the association started receiving allowances due them.
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No logic in these actions. The prof says bring the Data and get paid. and you say No, I am going on strike! Why don't you just give him the Data he is asking for? otherwise UTAG, are not acting with honesty. when integrity is lucking in peole, Trust is hard to find!
Please pay them what is due them and stop the ***barred word***. Our kids are wasting time at home!
I don't think Salifu is saying if a lecturer lives in an eight-bedroom apartment NCTE or whoever is responsible will pay a commensurate allowance. The rent or owner-occupier allowance is a percentage of the basic pay, so why don't they pay it since non of the lecturers lives on tree-tops. Everybody comes from a home, so what is he saying? If it's about car maintenance allowance they have the data already because they are already paying fuel allowance. Salifu should give us a break.