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“I Am Sorry” – NAPO Apologizes To Basic School Teachers
Education Minister, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, said his comments suggesting diploma holders attended colleges with worst grades were misconstrued.
In parts of a video which had already gone viral on social media, Dr Prempeh is seen purportedly describing diploma teachers as having attended colleges with the worst results.
The video has since sparked anger among a section of the public including some aggrieved teachers who are demanding an apology from the Minister.
But on Wednesday the Minister clarified when speaking to Kumasi-based Nhyira FM that there was no way he would rain insults on teachers for the selfless and sacrificial jobs they do in the country.
“It’s surprising that people would seek to twist my views and piece them up to get a distortion just to achieve a devilish plot. I will never insult teachers because we are the only government that is committed to paying teachers’ huge arrears owed them from 2013 to 2016″, Napo, as he is popularly called clarified.
Commenting specifically on the video in circulation against his person, Napo wondered the motivation to doctor his views in such a criminal manner. He said the video recording has been carefully pieced and his views distorted to suggest an insult on teachers, especially diploma holding ones.
The NPP, the minister of Education noted, has offered Diploma teachers the opportunity to do a four-year degree, a sort of top-up to their grades.
The Manhyia South lawmaker revealed that Diploma holding teachers who would take advantage to get grades at the university is sure to get better remuneration close to five times what they got when they had only Diploma certificates.
The Minister assured both Diploma and graduate teachers the government’s commitment to leading the case for their welfare.
Source: Thebbcghana.com
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Fares will be automatically adjusted against the increase in fuel prices – GPRTU (See Details)
Fares will be automatically adjusted against the increase in fuel prices – GPRTU (See Details)
The Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) has announced that prices will automatically be adjusted whenever petrol prices increase by 10%.
The union says a 15% increase in transportation costs will be repeated whenever fuel prices reach 10%.
Richard Yaw Amankwah, GPRTU’s Deputy Secretary-General for Operations, told the Ghana News Agency (GNA) that the union’s decision to estimate transportation costs and fuel prices was intended to benefit the industry.
“We have said that whenever the cost of petrol increases by 10% or more, we will increase fares,” he said.
“We are still looking at the cost. We are just wasting our time. “The same amount will be spent on travel expenses when it reaches 10%,” he told GNA.
On March 1, 2022, the prices of the previous petrol and diesel pump prices increased by 30 liters per liter, to GHC 8.20.
Some market experts predict that if nothing is done to reduce the cedi value of the dollar against the dollar, petrol prices could rise to GHC9.0 a liter.
The price volatility of petroleum products is due to the continued increase of Brent Crude in international markets.
The Institute for Energy Security (IES) predicted a 4% increase in petrol and diesel prices this week, citing cedi performance against the dollar as a major factor.
The IES has ruled that cedi is down 4.11 percent to close GHC6.85 to the dollar in the previous price window.
The Chamber of Petroleum Consumers (COPEC) also predicts that prices for petrol, diesel and LPG by 4.6%, 3.4% and 2.5% will increase by 2.5% from March 1, 2022.
In the First Price Window of March 2022, it predicted that petrol and diesel would be GHC8.190 a liter and LPG would be GHC9.163 per kilogram.
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