By Jesse Ampah Owusu
Accra, Sept. 28, GNA – Academic activities in public pre-tertiary schools within the Accra Metropolitan Area have been disrupted as teachers’ strike entered its fourth day on Monday.
Classrooms were largely vacant, while some school compounds had become playgrounds, with students left without teachers to supervise or teach them.
The nationwide strike, which began on Friday, September 25, was declared by the Ghana National Association of Teachers, the National Association of Graduate Teachers and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers.
The unions are demanding the placement of promoted teachers on their appropriate salary scales, as well as the payment of outstanding promotion allowances and arrears.
A Ghana News Agency team visited some schools in the metropolis on Monday to assess the impact of the strike.
At the Mantse Tackie Tawiah Cluster of Schools, most teachers had left after reporting for duty, leaving school heads and students on the premises.
Mr Wellington Akwetey Amanor, Headmaster of Liberty Avenue 1 and 4 Basic School, said the teachers reported to work but left before break time.
He said he was relying on a national service personnel who was at post to assist in supervising the students.
Similar situations were observed at Liberty Avenue 3 and Mantse Tackie 3 Basic Schools, where some students were seen playing on the school compound.
The GNA team also visited the Private Odartey Lamptey Cluster of Schools, where some students were playing football while others remained in their classrooms.
A headmaster at the school said the institution would close at the normal time despite the disruption to academic activities.
Meanwhile, Mr Haruna Iddrisu, the Minister of Education, has appealed to the teacher unions to suspend the industrial action as negotiations continue over their conditions of service, promotion arrears and other outstanding concerns.
He said the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission was expected to meet the teacher unions on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, to continue negotiations on their collective agreement and conditions of service.
The appeal followed an engagement between a government delegation led by the Minister for Employment and Labour and representatives of the teacher unions.
The delegation included the Minister for Education, representatives of the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission, the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department and the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service.
GNA
Edited by Agnes Boye-Doe