Leaked: Dear DG, find out the districts and amounts teachers paid for transfers and assurance [Short videos]

Leaked: Dear DG, find out the districts and amounts teachers paid for transfers and assurance [Short videos]

Dear Director General of the Ghana Education Service, some officials are demanding that teachers who seek transfers and assurance letters must pay before obtaining the same. Though the information about the transfers and assurance letters remains an allegation, it may be worth putting measures in place to avoid an incident where officials demand money to process teachers’ documents. This is because there is no smoke without fire.

Dear sir, imagine a teacher who is not entitled to a transfer grant, because the transfer is based on self request, is asked to pay over one thousand five hundred Ghana cedis (Ghc1,500) before his or her documents can be processed during transfers and assurance letters window. How would such a teacher convey his belongings to the new station?

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Classroom teachers have no financial issues too?

Is it the belief that any teacher seeking a transfers and assurance letters does not have any financial challenges, just like the officials demanding huge sums of money to process documents? Or the officials care less and are only interested in their own situation and/or want to push the said teachers further into debt. Teachers seeking transfer equally have families with financial challenges.

In addition, the official heads of various units may not officially sanction the activities of the individuals engaged in getting money to perform official duties.

However, the activities of those hidden faces are giving a bad name to the Ghana Education Service among staff. Interestingly, the officers or probably directors who may have demanded money to perform official duty were once classroom teachers. Or probably the said officers or directors went through the same treatment in the past. And therefore, he or she sees nothing wrong about their corrupt activities.

Institutional culture

Institutional culture, therefore, comes to overrule any effort to prevent the imposition of bribes on subordinates to process their transfers and assurance letters.

Dear Director General, it is for this reason you are the preferred Director General of the Ghana Education Service to correct the system.

First of all, you did not suffer the worst case scenario from the Ghana Education Service with respect to the demand by officers to process your documents especially transfers and assurance letters. This observation was made because you did not spend more than a decade in the Ghana Education Service before becoming the Director General later.

Also, you are arguably the youngest director general of the Ghana Education Service. CEOs of the giant blue-chip companies in the world are currently all young people who use change systems to improve their institutions.

Further, you stand the chance to be the longest serving Director General, all things being equal. You are, therefore, the best person to start changing the system to change the culture of the service.

Even when you do not last as the longest serving Director General, either because you choose a different path or any political maneuver, as it is the case in the country, you stand the chance of being the best person to be remembered as initiating any system that changes the culture of the service especially when it concerns transfers and assurance letters.

Dear Director General, you are therefore expected to appreciate and introduce the various needed change systems that can correct the “rots” in the system. Especially in situations where officials demand money to do their official duties.

Below are some of the responses by teachers to a question asking teachers whether they had paid or asked to pay for the transfers and assurance letter

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GES Barometer

Have you paid or asked to pay any money to process your transfer/ reposting letter or assurance letter?

A). Yes. I paid or asked to pay less than Ghc100

B). Yes. I paid or asked to pay b/n Ghc100-Ghc300

C). Yes. I paid or asked to pay b/n Ghc300-Ghc500

D). Yes. I paid or asked to pay b/n Ghc500-1,000

E) Yes. I paid or asked to pay b/n Ghc1,000-Ghc1,500

F). Yes. I paid or asked to pay more than Ghc1,500.

G). No. Am not asked to pay to process my transfer/ reposting or assurance letter

Join over 31,000 colleagues to participate in this poll to guide us all on Facebook https://facebook.com/groups/633333481100703/ or on Telegram https://t.me/GNAT_National

Watch the video of the people’s responses here on YouTube

Text responses on Facebook

“I was told straight in my face to pay ghc500.00 for assurance alone!”

“I was asked to pay Gh¢1200.”

“In fact, if there is truly HEAVEN and Hell, most of the educationists will go to Hell, very corrupt, as if they were not once teacher, all they do is taking here and there and at times some even back fires without returning the money”

“Three years ago, I was told to pay 1,000.00 cedis for assurance.”

Watch the video of alleged confessions here https://youtu.be/b5Qqk8Om6GA?si=uKruYXYF-QWaS1I_

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