119 people teaching in Ghanaian classrooms have no employment records, GES says
When the Ghana Education Service opened a help desk for teachers who said they had not been properly paid, it expected salary complaints. What it also found, it says, were 119 people working in classrooms who do not appear in its database at all.
The help desk opened at GES headquarters on September 8, 2026, and ran for a month. It was meant for teachers recruited in 2024 who had problems with their pay. In that time the Service received 471 complaints. In a statement on Friday, November 13, it said 347 were about unpaid salary arrears, and the other 124 came from teachers who said they had never been given Staff IDs.
The arrears cases have moved forward. GES says it processed all 347 and sent them to the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department (CAGD), which must validate them before anyone is paid. Teachers whose cases were cleared, the Service said, will receive their proper salaries, including any arrears they are owed.
The Staff ID cases ended differently. Only five of the 124 were processed, and those teachers should receive their IDs within weeks. The other 119 could not be verified. According to GES, these individuals have no records in its database, and it could not authenticate their appointment letters through the proper process.
The Service says it has already queried Regional Directors who have such people teaching in their regions. They have been asked to explain why the individuals are in classrooms without verifiable employment records.
The statement does not say who the 119 are, how they came to be teaching, or whether they have been paid, and it does not say what will happen to them.
Source: Myjoyonline.com
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