{"id":29208,"date":"2014-07-02T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=29208"},"modified":"2014-07-02T12:34:48","modified_gmt":"2014-07-02T12:34:48","slug":"poly-students-picket-at-education-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2014\/07\/poly-students-picket-at-education-ministry\/","title":{"rendered":"Poly students picket at Education Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of students of the Ghana\u00a0 National\u00a0 Union of Polytechnic\u00a0 Students( GNUPS)\u00a0 have besieged the Ministry of Education to\u00a0ask why the\u00a0ministry has failed to\u00a0resolve\u00a0the strike by Polytechnic Teachers Association Of Ghana (POTAG).<\/p>\n<p>According to the group, the march is in solidarity with POTAG who have been on strike for over a month following government\u2019s failure to pay their Book and Research Allowance for the 2013\/2014 academic year.<\/p>\n<p>POTAG was dragged to court by the National Labor Commission \u00a0in a bid to impress on POTAG to call off the strike.<\/p>\n<p>The NLC said that POTAG failed to comply with the provisions of the Labour Act, regarding notification to embark on a strike, thus declaring it as illegal .<\/p>\n<p>The case is still in court.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kwame Amponsah Manu, the National Coordinating Secretary for GNUPS who spoke on behalf of the group, told <b>Citi News<\/b> that the students are tired of government&#8217;s indifference to POTAG&#8217;s strike.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are doing today is marching and some students have even come from the other regions just to be here, we simply want to ask the government: is it committed to putting together frameworks to ensure that our right to education is enforced? We also want to ask the ministry why it has been reluctant in bringing our lecturers back to the classroom. It is not a protest but a march to demand answers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He also said that they will not leave the ministry until they are assured that their lecturers will go back to the classroom .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not leaving here until they come out and tell us to go back to our campuses because our lecturers are coming back to the classroom\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Afriyie Amoakoa Mensah\/citifmonline.com\/ Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds of students of the Ghana\u00a0 National\u00a0 Union of Polytechnic\u00a0 Students( GNUPS)\u00a0 have besieged the Ministry of Education to\u00a0ask why the\u00a0ministry has failed to\u00a0resolve\u00a0the strike by Polytechnic Teachers Association Of Ghana (POTAG). 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