Teachers across the country who went to the banks Tuesday morning beaming with smiles, returned with blank faces. Their disappointment follows heightened expectations of better salaries following their migration to the single spine salary scheme after earlier agitations. Many of them called into the studios of Joy FM to express their disappointment at the failure to see the 'promised' increase in salary. Whereas some claim their salaries have been slashed, others said there had been no increment in their salaries as they expected. "I am seriously disappointed because if I look at what I have received for February as they talk about as single spine, I have been reduced by 100 Ghana cedis,” one of the teachers lamented. “I went to the bank and the same old salary is there,” another complained, adding, if single spine meant an increment why is his salary the same? “Are teachers being taken for a ride?” he quizzed. The Ghana National Association of Teachers is blaming politicians for hyping public expectation about the pay policy. The General Secretary of GNAT, Irene Duncan Adanusa told Joy News the salary structure was not a guarantee for astronomical salary increases and yet some politicians exaggerated, whipping people’s expectation about the new structure. Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interviews. Source: Joy News/Ghana