Kumawood Nana Yeboah has urged the government to fire all striking teachers because they have become spoiled brats as a result of their lavish upbringing.
In a video, the controversial actor ridicules the four teacher unions who are on strike and calling for Cost Of Living Allowance (COLA) in response to the current economic misery plaguing Ghanaian society.
Since they received their full pay and other perks during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, when teachers were nearly sent home for a year, Mr. Yeboah has pleaded with the educators not to show their disdain for the government.
‘‘Ghanaian teachers, why are you so full of yourself, what is the meaning of all this strike, why are you on strike, you are so ungrateful after all the government has done for you during the lockdown period when you enjoyed all your salaries for almost a year without going to school. Why didn’t you refuse your salaries when you were not going to school to teach during the heightened period of covid. What arrant nonsense that we should increase your salaries. You want us to give you all of the state’s money’’
‘‘What proper teaching are you even given to students, what is even your worth teaching, you should consider the president’’ the ace actor said.
‘‘if I were to be the government, I would have sacked you all and replaced you with SHS leavers who haven’t got jobs, there are people looking for jobs to teach but they can’t find some and you are here fuming, such arrant nonsense that you won’t go to the class to teach, what is your use as teachers that you won’t teach’’ Nana Yeboah said.
Since Monday, July 4, four teacher unions—the Coalition of Concerned Teachers (CCT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT), the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), and the Teachers & Educational Workers’ Union (TEWU)—have ceased operations in support of a demand for a 20 percent COLA for the country’s more than 240,000 teachers.
The Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led political administration, which is attempting to get an IMF bailout, has suffered greatly as a result of the strike action.
The government-organized meeting, which was attended by important players in the education field, including the teacher union, came up empty, requiring the strike to run into the following week.
