The Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana, TTAG, has officially written to update trainees on the issues of allowances and feeding fees. The missive reads;
“Pursuant to the declaration af the Minister of Education, Hon. Yaw Osei Alutwum, on the release of the Ghc67,942,652.00 to settle arrears of teacher trainees allowance and subsequently the looming issues feeding fees, the National Secretariate of the Teacher Trainees Association of Ghana would want to by this intimation bring to the kind notice of all teacher trainees that processes are far advanced for payments to be made.
On the other hand, funds meant for feeding have been duely disbursed to the Principals.
Moreover, it was disclosed to the leadership in a close engagement with GTEC that the funds released are meant to cater for the 4 month arrears for the 2020/21 academic year whiles processes are facilitated for the payrnent of the rest of the months.
Consequently. the leadership of the association would like to commend the actors of and on behalf of the govermment for the expedient measures taken to pay arrears of the allowances and aid resolve issues surrounding the feeding of trainees.
To this end, we appreciate all our stakeholders for the continuous efforts and decisions taken in the interest of trainees, We also thank all media houses for the attention on this and many other issues”