The Controller and Accountant General’s Department (CAGD) have confirmed that a total of 88,756 staff are qualified to be paid under the legacy arrears.

According to CAGD, the last batch of 1,200 staff of the Ghana Education Service would be paid by Thursday, December 19, 2019 with 87,566 names validated and approved for payment according to Graphic Online.

Members of the Ghana National Association of Teachers (GNAT), the National Association of Graduate Teachers (NAGRAT) and the Coalition of Concerned Teachers-Ghana (CCT-GH) on Monday began a nationwide strike due to what they said were delays in the payment of legacy arrears, which spanned between 2012-2016.

The unions said, among other things, that they were concerned about the payment of the arrears because their checks had revealed that the arrears had been verified and approved for payment by the Controller and Accountant-General’s Internal Audit Unit about three weeks earlier.

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Revealing from source, 120,232 names were submitted for the payment of the arrears owed staff between 2012 and 2016 but after the audit and validation, the number was pruned down to 92,164.

According to the payment schedule, on August 18, 2019, all of the 13,928 affected workers whose names were submitted were dully paid.

That means that a total of 3,408 names submitted by the AGD were found not to have merited payment of the legacy arrears.