For the past six months, teacher trainees have not been paid their monthly allowance.
In an interview with Accra-based Adom FM, a teacher trainee, Kwame Agyin Acheampong, claimed that most students rely on the allowance to pay their fees and meet their household requirements.
Trainee teachers, he claims, see the government's failure to pay outstanding allowances as unfair punishment and a violation of commitment, adding that they are now struggling to afford a three-square meal a day.
"Various Colleges of Education's culinary staff are are on strike since their portion of the allowance has not been paid," he stated.
Because of the enormous relief it provides trainees, the reintroduction of the allowance has always been praised by Ghana's public colleges of education.
Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, the NDC's 2020 running mate, previously stated that when she was the Minister of Education, the teachers' trainee allowance was substituted with a student loan.
She said that the allowance was merely replaced with a student loan program that allowed more young people to be trained in order for the country to generate more teachers and nurses to cover the gap in schools and health facilities at the time.
"Trainee allowances were never abolished; instead, loans were replaced."
"We never terminated teachers' benefits; this issue should have died by now." This is the last time I'll say anything about it. If you cancel, it signifies you have something and we've come to take it away. That was never anything we did. Those on the loan program, as you know, remained to benefit from it until they graduated. "As a result, we never took anything from them," she explained.