Twenty seven(27) teachers in the Northeast region has been dismissed by Ghana Education Service(GES) for using fake appointment letters to join the service.
The victims are said to have secured postings to the various schools with fake appointment and posting letters giving them by unidentified persons bearing the signature of the Director-General of Ghana Education Service GES, Prof Kwasi Opoku-Amankwa.
Confirmation the incident,the North East Regional Public Relations Officer of Ghana Education Service GES, Tongo Yidana who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic explained that the affected persons did not follow the employment layed down procedures of the Ghana Education Service GES to join the teaching Service.
The victims are believed to have been scammed by some individuals who forged the Director-General’s signature to get them those fake appointment letters. When we checked from the database of Ghana Education Service, we realized that their particulars cannot be found there but they were posted to schools in North East Region where they are teaching. he also added that,the matter had been reported to the Ghana Police for further investigation.
It can be recalled that similar incident happen barely a month ago after a National Service Person at the Yendi Senior High School in the Northern Region was arrested by the police for allegedly defrauding some job seekers and impersonating the Director General of GES.
The suspect,in name Ziblim Abdul-Latif is said to have issued fake appointment and posting letters from the GES to about 100 job seekers and charged them between GH¢5,000 to GH¢9,000.
The victims were posted to about 40 basic schools in the Savelugu Municipality with majority of them being trained female teachers.
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