Editor of WhatsUp News, David Tamakloe has described the recent teachers’ laptop brouhaha as a “create, loot and share” policy among unseen persons who wish to milk poor teachers out of their meagre salaries.
He argues the government is able to provide equipment for doctors, the Police and other institutions but with teachers, the government is requesting them to pay for equipment they will use in their line of duty.
When he appeared on the Happy Morning Show with Samuel Eshun, he said: “I believe buying computers for these teachers is a matter of create, loot and share. They must just create a policy or a situation where some must be enriched. Other than that, I think there should be no reason that the buying of laptops should degenerate to corruption or back and forth between teachers and the ministry.”
He added that considering the procurement process involved in this policy of one teacher one laptop, everything points out that “someone is in a hurry to make money for somebody.”
The editor in his concluding statement, reiterated, “I don’t think the policy was well thought-through. When I look at it inside out, it is create, loot and share.”
Under the One teacher, One laptop policy, the government required that teachers pay 30 percent of the cost of GHS 1,550 through deductions from their salaries while it paid 70 percent.
Recent developments has it that teachers have been deducted GH₵509 from the teachers’ professional development allowance as part of the payment of the government’s one-teacher one laptop policy.
This has been met with mixed reactions from the teachers. For example, a group known as All Teachers Alliance Ghana (ATAG), has announced its decision to embark on a demonstration to express its displeasure over the deduction.
The Innovative Teachers Association Ghana, however, believes demonstrating is a waste of time as there is pending court case on the matter.
By: Alberta Dorcas Naa Dedei James
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