University Teachers Association of Ghana goes on 2-week strike break

• Members of UTAG have announced that they are suspending their strike following an emergency meeting
• The group indicated that it had considered a number of things before coming to this conclusion
• UTAG has been on a 7-week-long strike following misunderstandings between the teaching body and government

Members of the University Teachers Association of Ghana (UTAG) following an emergency meeting, on Monday, February 21, decided to suspend its seven-week-old strike.

According to a press release issued and sighted by YEN.com.gh on 3news.com, UTAG’s National Executive Committee made some considerations before finally coming to the decision.

They said considerations included interventions from eminent leaders like former President John Agyekum Kufuor, who is the Chancellor of the University of Mines and Technology (UMaT), and Sir Sam Jonah, the Chancellor of the University of Cape Coast (UCC).

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At the meeting, the National Executive Committee asked the body to heed to the advice of the respected Ghanaian personalities, the Select Committee on Education and the court ruling to suspend their strike action up until March 4, 2022, to engage with the ruling government.

The latest decision will have to be voted on by the entire membership as per Article 5, Sections 1-4, of the bye-laws of UTAG.

By the statement, the hierarchy of the teaching body is calling on its members to take note of the update and act accordingly.

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In a report sighted by YEN.com.gh on modernghana, the preacher who was speaking in his church said when he first travelled to Ghana less than a decade ago, “there were a lot of dirt roads and people just in meagre gear and what have you and very few buildings and nice hotels,” the preacher said.

He then said some years after the first experience, he returned to see a completely different Ghana.

Source: YEN.com.gh