Teachers Deserve Better Than Retiring in Poverty After Years of Service – Ali Awudu

Teachers are underpaid in Ghana, the President of the Coalition of Concerned Teachers, Ghana, King Ali Awudu, has said. He described the situation as unfortunate, given that teachers put in so much effort to impart knowledge to young ones yet retire as very poor people.

“Teachers all over Ghana are underpaid. Unfortunately, teachers will put in their all to impart knowledge to younger generations and retire as paupers,” he said while speaking in an interview with TV3’s Kemmini Amanor on Sunday, April 7.

Regarding the government’s program, the One Student One Tableit initiative for senior high schools, he called for an extension of this initiative to basic schools as well.

He said that basic schools, which formed the critical aspect of the education ladder, have not seen much investment. He said this while expressing concerns that the government is paying too much attention to investments in senior high schools at the expense of basic schools.

He said “The government is not pumping so much money as it is being pumped into the senior high schools. When it comes to the SHS, the feeding that is given to them alone surpasses the money that is supposed to be paid to pupils in basic schools per annum. So if you come to SHS the amount of money the government spends on feeding and other perishables per student, per day is just like the money that the government spends per pupil per year in the basic schools.