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The Coalition of Injured Teachers says it will mobilize its more than 50,000 members to vote en masse against the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for failing to fulfill its 2016 promise to pay them their inherited arrears.
The group has accused the current administration of deception.
At a press conference in Kumasi, the group’s spokesman, Effah Kwaku Tabiri, says that affected teachers will vote against the PNP in the December 7 elections.
“There is a saying in Akan that translates to ‘you cannot succeed if you try to hinder the success of others.’ So if our parliamentarians, our ministers, the government do not allow us to enjoy what little we are supposed to enjoy, we will not allow them to enjoy the lion’s share either, “he said.
“On December 7, as teachers that we are, we will give our mandate to the NDC just as we did with NPP in 2016. The affected teachers are more than 54,000, we will unite and vote against the NPP government so they know they are not affiliated with a particular political party, if they don’t pay us we will vote for it because governance is about development and the well-being of citizens, ”he added.
The country’s teacher unions, the National Association of Teachers of Ghana (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), have threatened on several occasions to leave their tools in default of the government to pay inherited arrears.
The arrears, which include more than two years of back pay and promotions, as well as assignments for some public school teachers, have sparked a series of protests in the education sector.
