{"id":8661,"date":"2019-09-14T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-14T08:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=8661"},"modified":"2019-10-26T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T18:02:07","slug":"gnat-president-general-secretary-asked-to-resign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/09\/14\/gnat-president-general-secretary-asked-to-resign\/","title":{"rendered":"GNAT President, General Secretary asked to resign"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Greater Accra chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called for the resignation of its national president, Philipa Larsen and General Secretary, David Ofori Acheampong.<\/p>\n

The vice president of the Greater Accra region\u00a0of GNAT Sebastian Adamu who is also national vice president accused the two leaders of \u2018divide and rule\u2019 tactics which he said played out in a recent decision to declare a strike.<\/p>\n

Philipa Larsen and Mr\u00a0Ofori Acheampong said it had not embarked on a strike days even after six regional associations had declared industrial action on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The Regional Chairman raised issues such as GES\/SIC Group Life Insurance policy deductions, non-payment of salary arrears, delay in salary adjustment, interview and issuance of promotional letters and\u00a0the implementation of new software to administer payroll within the Ghana Education Service (GES).<\/p>\n

NAGRAT along with the six unions have described the system as a source of frustration for teachers.\u00a0But the GNAT Greater Accra president said to their dismay, their national leaders betrayed the struggle.<\/p>\n

The president and the General\u00a0Secretary claimed in different interviews they\u00a0did not know the regional leaders who signed the statement declaring a strike.<\/p>\n

The GNAT president told the media the concerns raised in the press release by the purported leaders\u00a0were issues the Association were already in talks with the GES and the Ministry of Education to find lasting solutions.<\/p>\n

The GNAT General Secretary David Acheampong also said the regional chairmen did not use the due process within the mother union to trigger the strike.<\/p>\n

He said the issues underlying the strike should have been brought to the national executives for a decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are even at a loss as to if these people genuinely the regional chairmen that they claim to be,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n

But the Greater Accra vice-president Sebastian Adamu explained, the national executives were not fully informed of the agitations because for some time now they have been working against the interest of teachers.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf they are saying they don\u2019t back the strike that one it is their opinion. But they said they don\u2019t know the identity of those chairmen\u201d he said at a press conference.<\/p>\n

He said these chairmen were key to her victory at delegate congress four years ago and sit with her at meetings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf your leader disowns you what do you do? You disown her,\u201d he told JoyNews Friday.<\/p>\n

He said this betrayal is a final culmination of the actions which have resulted in a loss of confidence in the national leaders.<\/p>\n

The GNAT President and General Secretary were unavailable for comment.<\/p>\n

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source: myjoyonline<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Greater Accra chapter of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has called for the resignation of its national president, Philipa Larsen and General Secretary, David Ofori Acheampong. The vice president of the Greater Accra region\u00a0of GNAT Sebastian Adamu who is also national vice president accused the two leaders of \u2018divide and rule\u2019 tactics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8662,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[4553,11261,7489,6693,539,423,7487,250,192,1656,5162,2702,11493,705,1124,11973,3805,6431,8297,5261,11732,5818,6741,11906,7231,2802,10885,594],"class_list":["post-8661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-accra","tag-accused","tag-chairman","tag-congress","tag-delay","tag-education","tag-general-secretary","tag-ges","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-national-association-of-teachers-gnat","tag-gnat","tag-identity","tag-interview","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-nagrat","tag-one","tag-president","tag-release","tag-resign","tag-salary","tag-sic","tag-strike","tag-teachers","tag-the-general","tag-union","tag-vice-president","tag-victory","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}