Over 10,000 teachers throughout the country have not been paid since their salaries since October 2006. They constitute newly trained teachers and teachers who have returned from study leave. A number of teachers recruited as far back as 2004 have also not been paid. This is because the newly installed Integrated Personnel Payroll Database (IPPD2) which is unable to access information stored in the previous data base (IPPD1) which had been discarded. John Nyoagbe, Deputy General Secretary of the Ghana National Association of Teachers disclosed this last Friday at the meeting of a one week training of trainers’ workshop at Koforidua. He said the information being transferred from the old data base (IPPD1) to the current data base (IPPD2) “got lost in transit” and that made it difficult for them to be paid. “We of GNAT wish to invite the Eastern Regional Minister, the Regional Director of Education, District Directors and Managers of Educational Units to be sensitive to the plight of the affected teachers. “In the same vein, they should be sensitive to those teachers who were promoted since 21004 but have not had their salaries adjusted”. Mr Nyoagbe stated that these infractions should be rectified immediately “if we want to be assured of teachers commitment to and cooperation in implementing the new education reforms. The Deputy Eastern Regional Minister, Susanna Mensah said the country would not progress if teachers did not progress if teachers did not give off their best. “We wish to inform GNAT that government is seriously considering some of the recommendations the National Executive Committee submitted to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports in order to fine- tune the implementation of the strategy”, she said. Source: The Ghanaian Times