The Ghana Education Service (GES) is pleading with the Conference of Heads of Assisted Senior High Schools (CHASS) not to shut down schools because their subventions will soon be paid.<\/p>\n
According to the Acting Director-General of GES, Charles Aheto-Tsegah, plans are far advanced for the Bank of Ghana (BoG) to release the money to the schools.<\/p>\n
CHASS is scheduled to hold a National Executive Committee meeting on Thursday to decide when to\u00a0close the\u00a0schools over unpaid subventions.<\/p>\n
Government owes CHASS subventions which cover three terms [one academic year].<\/p>\n
The GES promised to pay the first tranche of subsidy payments to government assisted SHS between July 14 and 19.<\/p>\n
Two weeks after this promise was made; the money is yet to be paid to schools.<\/p>\n
But speaking in an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Aheto-Tsegah once again assured the head teachers the subsidies will be paid.<\/p>\n He said a number of procedures have been completed \u201cand we are just left with the Bank of Ghana\u2026 and once it\u2019s done, I\u2019m sure the bank will start processing it.<\/p>\n He expressed the hope that from \u201ctoday onwards, I think the funds will be available to them.\u201d<\/p>\n The GES director said he is not privy to how the banks process the funds but government assisted SHSs which deal with the Ghana Commercial Bank (GCB) will face a little challenge because \u201cthe commercial bank has its own challenges and that is beyond our control.\u201d<\/p>\n He pleaded for patience and understanding from CHASS because \u201cdefinitely, we will see some results.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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