The Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) has up to Friday, February 16, 2024, to release the frozen salaries of some teachers or face their wrath, the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), has warned.
The two-day ultimatum given to the OSP on Wednesday, February 14, 2024, comes after the Association has alleged that the Office has withheld the salaries of more than 400 of it members.
The OSP has indicated that the development comes as a result of the investigations being conducted to expunge ghost names from the government’s payroll.
However, the President of NAGRAT, Angel Carbonu, has said the reason is not enough justification to withhold the teachers’ salaries.
Mr. Carbonu has therefore warned that the Association will advise themselves if the OSP refuses to release the salaries by Friday.
“When you’re auditing somebody, until the audit is completed and you have conclusively arrived indicating that A, B and C are not qualified to earn a salary, you don’t go ahead to inflict purgery.”
“He [Special Prosecutor] has not finished prosecuting people who have been given bribes in elections and things like that, it is not poor teachers that he is coming to zero in on. If he does not defreeze the salaries by Friday, he will have to be blamed for whatever happens after Friday,” he said on Accra-based JoyFM Wednesday.
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