They said I could not
restore teacher trainee and nursing trainee allowances...
They said I could not
restore teacher trainee and...
He repeated the pledge to move quickly to
restore teacher trainee allowances and bring back to life collapsing social intervention programmes introduced by the NPP under President John Agyekum Kufuor.
The Former Deputy Local Government Minister and Rural Development in the Kufuor administration had described as ridiculous the call by the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT) on president - elect, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo, to
restore teacher trainee allowances within its first 100 days in office.
Government
restored the Teacher Trainee Allowance covering over 49,000 teacher trainees from 41 public Colleges of Education for the 2017/18 academic year.
Government says it will be considering an upward review of the newly
restored teacher trainee allowance from the current 400 cedis to about 500 cedis.
Not exact matches
President Nana Akufo - Addo presenting his maiden state of the nations address earlier this year promised to honor his pledge by
restoring the allowance to all nursing and
teacher trainees across the country.
He told the teeming partisan crowd at the Bawjuasi electoral area that a Nana Akufo - Addo government will also
restore the
teacher and nursing
trainee allowances that have been scrapped by the NDC government.
When Nurses and
Teacher Trainee allowances have not been
restored and several graduates from private Nursing Training Schools are picketing for financial clearance to be employed by the ministry of health.
The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), President John Mahama has said his government would not backtrack on its decision to scrap
teacher trainee allowances saying he would rather lose the elections than
restore the allowances.
«He said he would
restore the [
teacher and] nursing
trainee allowance after he had promised not to reverse the decision,» he said, adding «We need a decisive leadership.»
A
teacher trainee of the Accra College of Education who spoke to the Daily Graphic on condition of anonymity, while applauding the government for
restoring the allowance, however, said the amount was smaller than expected.
«The
teacher trainees we've met are happy that the allowance has been
restored.
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo - Addo also promised to
restore the nursing and
teacher trainee allowances scrapped by the Mahama government if he is elected into office.
He said
teacher trainee allowance would be
restored this month, and that of nurses next month, and reiterated Government's commitment to the construction of the Eastern Corridor road and the construction of a bridge on River Oti.
Speaking at the Aflao, Ho and Hohoe Central mosques, Dr. Bawumia the Akufo - Addo government has
restored Teacher and Nursing
trainee allowances and implementing Planting for Food and Jobs initiative to improve agric while creating jobs at the same time.
He discounted political opponents doubt about the NPP's promise to
restore teacher and nursing
trainees allowances which has dominated the political space.
He also added that «
teacher trainee allowances have not only been
restored, it's going before reopening.»
According to President Akufo - Addo, the same people who are saying his administration has done nothing over the last 16 months in office are the same persons who, prior to the 2016 elections, stated that free SHS was not possible, and described as lies the pledge to
restore the nursing and
teacher trainee allowances.
480 million in the 2018 Budget for the payment of allowances to
teacher and nursing
trainees after
restoring the allowances for next year.
That is what we are fighting for, and that is why we are going to
restore the allowances for
teacher trainees,» he added.