Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyernang, the Vice Presidential Candidate of the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the 2020 elections, has finally broken her silence, on the controversial Teacher Trainee allowance.
The NDC Government in the year 2014, scrapped teacher and Nurses trainee allowance. This was followed by several calls from the Ghanaian public, to compel government to reintroduce the allowance.
The Government after the cancellation, explained that, the decision was to allow it, to expand various health and educational infrastructure in the country, as well as remove the restrictions on admission, to the various training institutions.
The New Patriotic Party (NPP), during their 2016 election campaigns, assured nurses and teacher trainees, that it will restore their scrapped allowances within 3 months, after been elected into office.
The NPP after assuming office in 2017, restored the allowances; but the subject of teacher trainee allowance, has recently become another trending topic in Ghana’s media, following some reports, that many trainees are owed allowances of more than four months.
Also, there were circulations all over, that teacher trainees, would be forced to feed themselves, over the non-payment of feeding allowances by the government.
Reacting the comments by the NPP, that the NDC whiles in government, scrapped teacher and Nurses trainee allowances, Prof. Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang said, ‘Teacher trainee allowance wasn’t scrapped; we replaced it with loans’.
According to her, “some persons have claimed in different media programmes, that the allowance was scrapped, and monies due the trainees were withheld from them but, I need to emphasize that we never scrapped the allowance. We never took anybody’s money from them. All those who were receiving the allowance, received them till it ended. We gave them the loans, that was about twice what they were getting as allowances, because we thought they needed more”.
Professor Opoku-Agyemang, who was also a Former Minister of Education, said these whiles speaking at a ceremony at Wesley College, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana.
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