
Dr Akwasi Amakye Senior Political Science Lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST),has called on Ghanaian teachers to flee the country if they can, to enable them get a better working conditions elsewhere.
Dr Amakye said ,all the various governments the country has had over the years have mostly neglected the welfare of the Ghanaian teacher.
“Years ago, people said the reward for a teachers was in heaven, but I tell you, their reward is in the western world. Other countries need the service of the Ghanaian teacher badly. They are now hard to find so if you are a teacher don’t stay here and die. Dr Amakye Boateng said this in a discussion on Kumasi based Angel FM monitored by MyNewsGH.com.
“The youth among us shouldn’t stay here to be disgraced, your reward is in the western world”, he added.
According to him, teachers also deserve better in their own country adding that they need to receive the reward for their good job right on this earth and not otherwise.
Dr Amakye Boateng made this statement while speaking on report that suggests that Ghana in recent years has lost a huge number of teachers.
The lecturer blames President Akufo-Addo for the woes of Ghanaian teachers who now survive from hand to mouth. Teachers also deserve a decent pay and living conditions, why should they be neglected he fumed.