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GNAT gets tough with credit companies
Nkoranza (B/A), Feb. 2, Ghanadot/GNA – Mr. Paul Baffoe-Ansah,
Nkoranza District Secretary of Ghana National Association of
Teachers, has said the association would take on any company
that would cause deductions to be made in the salaries of
members without their knowledge.
He said the practice had become rampant in the country and
it was time it was curtailed.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency at Nkoranza, Mr.
Baffoe-Ansah said studies had revealed that some
unscrupulous persons managed to take the pay slips of staff
members to companies for either cash or goods and authorized
that the repayment should be processed through monthly
deductions at the Accountant General’s Department.
Mr. Baffoe-Ansah said a number of teachers had complained
that even though they had not collected any credit
facilities, some companies had caused deductions to be made
in their salaries.
“Mr. Kwadwo Twine, a teacher, showed his November/December
pay slips for last year to me and Ray Ray Frontline Company
Limited had deducted GHC 23 from his salary even though he
had not entered into any transaction with the company”, he
said.
Mr. Baffoe-Ansah said similar complaints had come from the
districts and GNAT had started compiling names of the
affected teachers to be able to trace the source of the deal
so the perpetrators would face the full rigours of the law.
He appealed to district and municipal directors of education
to ensure that pay slips got to teachers directly.
GNA
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