‘Teachers should not suffer for someone’s responsibility’ – CAGD

The Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD) has called on the Ghana Education Service (GES) to speed up the submission of documents required to process outstanding teacher promotion payments. CAGD's Head of Public Affairs, Cephas Dosu, explained that only around 6,709 out of the estimated 58,000 to 70,000 promoted teachers have had their cases validated so far.

Dosu emphasized that the department only requires the relevant promotion letters and completed input forms to validate and process the payments. He stressed that the department is not concerned with the fluctuating figures for the total number of promotions, but rather the submission of the necessary supporting documents. Dosu acknowledged the distress caused to teachers due to the administrative delays, emphasizing that they should not bear the consequences of administrative oversights.

He urged GES to expedite the transfer of outstanding documents to CAGD to ensure accurate verification and timely payments. Dosu also highlighted the importance of this verification process to avoid errors in payroll, such as mistakenly promoting non-promoted teachers or assigning incorrect salary steps to promoted teachers.