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Teachers May 2024 Salary Validation Drops amidst OSP’s Investigation

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Teachers May 2024 Salary Validation Drops

According to reliable sources, the Ghana Education News portal can confirm that the May 2024 salary validation for Ghana Education Service staff has begun. We advise all staff to log onto the portal to complete the May 2024 salary validation process.

The May 2024 salary validation was pending prior to the infamous investigations and reports released by the Office of the Special Prosecutor.

According to the OPS, a public school in the northern region of Ghana that did not exist had its non-existent staff validated over and over again, resulting in the state losing financial resources.

The investigation revealed that

  1. The school the outfit investigated is fictional and does not exist.
  2. The school’s staff does not yet exist; they receive monthly validation and salaries.
  3. GH₵2.8 million in unearned salaries has been paid to ‘ghost names,’ which included individuals who were deceased, retired, or no longer in their positions.
  4. A staggering amount of GH₵2,854,144.80 was identified as unearned monthly salaries.

There have been issues with the validation of salaries for GES staff due to allegations of system abuse and delegated duties.

In certain cases, validators have declined to validate staff due to personal conflicts they may have with specific staff members. In 2022, the GES urged all those assigned such duties to carry them out according to the official guidelines.

Allegations also surfaced that the non-validation of these staff members’ names by accredited validators occurred solely as a punitive measure, motivated by personal disagreements or differences. In 2022, the Informated Teachers Network published a blog post that partially addressed this issue.

The District/Regional Director or the Director General must expressly authorize blocking or not validating a staff member’s salary for any reason not specified in the salary validation guidelines. This includes instances where such recommendations are based on investigations or disciplinary committees at all levels.”
If a validator refuses to validate a staff member, the officer is required to file a formal report with the Regional/District Director or the Director General, as the case may be.
The management of the GES has indicated that under no circumstances should an officer assigned the duties to validate take any decision not to validate outside the ambit of the guidelines provided.
Finally, staff members whose salaries are not validated are to lodge official reports for non-validation immediately after such non-validation through the appropriate quarters within the GES for investigations.

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WISDOM HAMMOND

The Ghana Education News Editorial Team is a specialized collective of education researchers, journalists, and policy analysts dedicated to providing high-fidelity reporting on the Ghanaian academic landscape. Serving as a primary bridge between governing bodies—including the Ghana Education Service (GES) and WAEC—and the public, the team leverages over a decade of combined experience to serve students, parents, and educators nationwide.Lead Architect & Editor-in-ChiefThe team is led by Wisdom Kojo Eli Hammond, a distinguished Ghanaian Edu-Tech Entrepreneur, AI Solutions Developer, and Product Architect with over 25 years of cross-disciplinary experience in education, finance, and digital media. Wisdom is the visionary force behind SkulManager, Ghana’s premier school management ecosystem, and the Lead Consultant at Education-News Consult.A self-taught innovator, professional Web Designer, and regular columnist on GhanaWeb, Wisdom engineered SkulManager.com as the only platform strictly tailored to the GES Curriculum. His technical leadership has redefined educational assessment through a Hybrid Marking Ecosystem, pioneering the BECE and WASSCE Home Mock services—a unique fusion of WAEC-trained human examiners and advanced AI marking engines operational since 2022.Wisdom’s 360-degree view of institutional challenges is grounded in his tenure as College President and Lecturer at Pinnacle College (Achimota), as well as his background as a school administrator and accountant. He is a dedicated lifelong learner currently advancing his studies at the Accra Institute of Technology (AIT), with academic ties to the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).An accomplished author, his works include Returnees of the Dead Forest (UK Published), Simplified Beacon of Light (850+ Q&A), and The Leader in Me. A foundational pillar of the award-winning NGO Human Rights Reporters Ghana (HRRG), Wisdom is committed to building intelligent systems that solve societal problems and prepare the next generation of Ghanaian students for a digital future.Contact: 0550360658 | Portals: GhanaEducation.org, GhanaEducationNews.org, SkulManager.com, BECEPrep.com. Educationnewsconsult.com etc

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1 Response

  1. Justine Kpieonaa Kutiina says:
    May 28, 2024 at 9:55 pm

    MY KPIEONAA KUTIINA JUSTINE my salary has cut out for last and this without a reason but according to my validator that he add me as a missing staff but he has been validating me since 2023. I don’t know where my problem is coming from

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