(Audio): Ensure equity in the payment of 10 % rent by teachers – Africa Education Watch

Senior Fellow at the African Education Watch Divine Kpe has called on the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to ensure equity in the payment of rent by teachers and staff living in Government bungalows.

A circular from the GES circulating on social media, signed by the Director of Education in the Western Region, Mrs. Felicia Agyeibea Okai referred to a Ministry of Finance circular dated May 15, 2006, in connection with the payment.

She said teachers occupying either a school or a government bungalow are expected to pay ten percent of their basic salary for enjoying the government apartment.

“I, therefore, write to inform you that with effect from 1st March 2022 all Teachers/Staff occupying School/Government bungalow are to pay 10% of their basic salary,” she noted.

Mr Kpe explained that while some other government workers enjoyed various forms of allowances, the teachers were left out.

He however decried that the deplorable state of some of these government facilities the teachers’ pay for.