15/12/2025
People of God, our brothers and sisters are meeting the press. They will be expecting a response from the Minister of Education and the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service. However, we can already predict their response.
In a recent letter released by GES addressing the alleged sale of appointment letters and staff IDs, GES stated that it is working only with the 6,100 financial clearance. This clearance is being used to mechanise the unpaid 2024 year group who have worked for a year without salary, as well as to replace a few fake appointments.
On new employment, apart from the alleged secret recruitments trending on social media, GES maintains that it is waiting for additional financial clearance before any decision can be made. This has been their position, and it has not changed.
The Minister of Education, while addressing graduating students at Tamale college of education, said the same thing. He stated clearly that the only clearance available is the 6,100. He went further to assure graduates that he will work to secure the necessary clearance for their employment.
When he made the statement, the students cheered him, I know they are ignorant about how things work and how things are currently. They will later understand.
What this means in reality is that we may have to wait until the next budget, possibly the mid-year budget of 2026, before new financial clearance is granted. I do not see what else could change this, except an emergency teacher shortage.
Based on the posture of the Minister of Finance, the Minister of Education, and the Director-General of GES, they are all communicating one message: there are bigger priorities than the recruitment of teachers and nurses. We are expected to wait until those priorities are addressed before our concerns are considered.
I i sincerely empathize with our brothers and sisters. We that are receiving the noko fio are complaining of hardship. I can only imagine what some are going through. We hope this media engagement brings that change.
