Teachers’ strike effective in Bolgatanga Municipality

By Anthony Apubeo, GNA

Bolgatanga, Dec 9, GNA – The nationwide strike action declared by three teacher unions has taken effect in the Bolgatanga Municipality of the Upper East Region with teachers abandoning classes.

Students and pupils who attended school on Monday, December 9 were asked to return home by teachers of some schools while in other schools there were no teachers.

Three teacher unions, the Ghana National Teachers Association (GNAT), National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers Ghana, jointly declared to lay down their tools on December 9, 2019, over government’s failure to meet their demands.

The teacher unions declared their intention to embark on a nationwide strike after their plea with government to settle all arears owed teachers since 2012 and improve their working conditions had not materialized.

 A visit by the Ghana News Agency to some schools in the Municipality showed that the few teachers who turned up in some schools refused to teach and rather asked the pupils to go home.

When the GNA caught up with some of the pupils who were returning home from their schools, they said their teachers had gone on strike and none of them came to school. 

At St Charles, Atozongo, Kulgu, Kolgo, Atampuruum and Atampuruum B primary and Junior High Schools, all the classrooms were locked up and there was no single teacher or pupil in any of the schools by 11:00 hours.

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