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March 11, 2016
Graduate teachers, government urged to
relax positions
Kumasi, Nov. 20, GNA - The Asante United Front (AUF), a
pressure group in Kumasi on Monday urged the National
Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the government
to relax their positions on the current impasse to allow for
a peaceful settlement to be reached.
The Front said issues affecting
basic education were matters of Ghana's future and so care
must be taken to ensure that the legacy left for posterity
would be one that everybody would be proud of.
This was contained in a statement signed by Opanin Kwame
Afreh and Mr C W Nuakoh, Chairman and Secretary of the AUF
respectively and issued to the Press in Kumasi on Monday.
The Statement said care must be taken by people to ensure
that comments and statements that were likely to inflame
passions were limited to the barest minimum or if possible
disregarded completely.
It said the end of the problem was nowhere near home
considering the position that the Ashanti Region branch of
the Graduate Teachers had taken.
"It is not just enough to assume that having been compelled
by a court order to go back to the classroom the
dissatisfied teachers will demonstrate commitment in their
work", it said.
It said it was not time to apportion blame to any of the
parties in the conflict adding that the teachers as well as
the government had genuine problems that could not be wished
away or taken for granted.
"A situation like this, calls for a sober reflection of the
issues on the table to enable an effective solution to be
arrived at. This is the tine for mutual co-operation and
understanding for the feuding parties", the statement said.
The AUF stressed the need for all parents and well meaning
Ghanaians to join them to appeal to Otumfuo Osei Tutu II,
the Asantehene to take up the challenge to help resolve the
impasse since education was dear to his heart.
GNA
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