COMEU cry over 4-year unpaid grants

The Conference of Managers of Education Units (COMEU) are crying over government’s failure to disburse statutory quarterly grants due them for about four years now.

According to the managers, government has failed to pay the quarterly grants since 2012, a situation which is crippling the management of education in the country.

Speaking to Starr News on Tuesday at the sidelines of the opening ceremony of the 42nd Annual Conference of Managers of Education Units in Ghana held in Koforidua, the National President of COMEU, Mr. Peter Yaw Frimpong explained that, the Ghana Education Service has failed to pay the accumulated quarterly grants to the Unit Managers to effectively manage the Schools.

He said, managers of schools in the country are in great difficulty and a state of despair as to the financial resources to be used in running the administrative affairs of their schools.

Mr. Frimpong further said managers of Education Units are using their own pocket monies to run their affairs.

"From 2012 to date, quarterly grants have not been paid to our offices, in fact it has not been paid to GES but I am not speaking for them but for myself, the quarterly grants are not forth coming so we manage our offices from our little resources, it is a difficulty. We are religious people, we don’t fight, we should be the last group to go on demonstration.

“We are in an era that people are not paid because they have not gone on strike, which should not be the case."

Starr News is reliably informed that, the situation is not peculiar to Education Unit Managers, but the district Directors and managers of Education have their quarterly grants in arrears.

Meanwhile, the Conference of Managers of Education units have expressed concern over GES management sidelining the partner schools in decision making and exclusion of Education Unit Managers in the GES organogram.



Source:Starrfmonline