The Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) has asked the government to stop using teachers to highlight its achievement. The association said its attention had been drawn to an advertisement currently running on national television and radio stations about some achievements of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) government. A statement signed by the General Secretary of GNAT, Irene Duncan Adanusa, stated emphatically that the association was neither happy nor enthused about the use of the Single Spine Salary Structure (SSSS) of teachers to highlight the achievements of the NDC government. It said the advert had portrayed that teachers had been made better off as a result of the implementation of the new pay policy. “Apart from the embarrassment the advert has created, it also contains factual inaccuracy,” it said, adding that both headmasters and headteachers had no allowances paid to them as captured in the advert. It noted that some aspects of the new pay policy like categories 2 and allowances, market premium for teachers teaching critical subjects like Mathematics, Science, ICT, Linguistics and Vocational/ Technical skills, had not been implemented. “The association does not want to dabble in partisan political propaganda and does not also expect any political party to use mischievous misrepresentation of facts to paint teachers in different colours,” the statement said. The use of an unknown teachers’ movement and a few unscrupulous members of the fraternity who were not known in the labour front, according to the statement, smacked of diabolical intentions that must be condemned by the labour movement of Ghana. The Association, therefore, called on the ruling NDC government to remove the obnoxious advertisement from the national television and apologise to teachers without hesitation.”