Over 600 teachers in their final year of study leave at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology are protesting the removal of their names from the payroll of the Ghana Education Service. The teachers say they are not signing their posting letters until the GES restores their names on the roll. They also want salaries owed them paid immediately. The action is said to have been taken after external auditors reported that letters authorizing study-leave for some of the teachers were not genuine. But the teachers have dismissed the audit report as false, and are threatening a massive demonstration. Joy FM’s Ashanti Regional Correspondent, Elton John Brobbey, reported that the teachers say although they petitioned the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT) to intervene in the matter, nothing had yet been done. The KNUST branch president of GNAT, Samuel Obeng, said the government will be the greatest loser if the situation is allowed to degenerate. Ghana has a deficit of 80,000 teachers, and that if the teachers were to divert to other sectors, the country’s educational sector will suffer. Source: Joy News/Ghana