The Ghana Education Service (GES) has said names submitted to it for the free Teacher Laptop project included fake names with fake IDs.
The GES through a statement asked District Directors of Education and Headteachers to validate the list sent and warned that such actions constitute fraud.
The statement continued that the attention of the Management of Ghana Education Service has been drawn to the fact that some Metro/Municipal/District Directors of Education in submitting the name of teachers for the laptops have added names of persons who do not qualify, including non-teaching staff and retired or separated staff.
“The indications are that in some instances some strange names have been added with fake staff IDs. District Directors of Education are requested to ask Headteachers to be responsible for the names being submitted. District Directors of Education and Headteachers are reminded that such conduct constitutes FRAUD,” portion of the statement read.
Continuing the GES statement further pointed out that all District Directors of Education are therefore requested to validate the list which has been sent and submit an updated list by close of work today, Tuesday, 31st August 2021.
The Ghana Education Service announced sometime before the month of May, 2021, it will take delivery of two hundred and eighty thousand laptops to be distributed to teachers across the country.
This it pointed out, is s part of government plans for a teacher to own a laptop, the government has taken seventy (70) percent of the cost of the laptops with teachers expected to pay the remaining thirty (30) percent for a period of twelve (12) months.
The laptop project is one of the measures by the government to promote digital literacy among teachers and students, Ghana Education Service will organize in-serve training for teachers on digital literacy.
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