The National Coordinator of the District Roads Improvement Programme (DRIP), Nii Lante Vanderpuye, has expressed concern over the persistent delays in paying salaries of nurses and teachers across the country.
Mr. Vanderpuye noted that the situation has become a recurring problem in Ghana’s Fourth Republic and must be urgently addressed.
“It is worrying when, continually in this country, teachers, nurses, and other service staff who are recruited have to spend months before receiving their salaries. It has been occurring frequently.
“In this Fourth Republic, it has always become like a norm that teachers would be recruited, nurses would be recruited, sometimes even doctors, and for months, they wouldn’t be receiving their salaries,” he said.
He described the problem as a “structural defect” within the administrative system and called for reforms to ensure swift recruitment and payment processes.
“I think it’s a structural defect that we have within our administrative system, and I think we should be looking at how promptly people are employed, and immediately they are employed, they are captured onto the data system so that their benefits would be paid to them as when they are due,” he added.
His comments follow recent protests by frustrated health and education workers who claim they have worked for up to ten months without pay.
