The Ghana Education Services (GES) has asked the public to disregard information circulating on social media about the introduction of uniforms for teachers in basic schools.
GES said there are no such plans and the pictures rife on social media circles are fake.
Some females purported to be teachers were wearing brown uniforms with a GES tag embossed on the left pocket.
However, the Director-General of GES, Prof Akwasi Opoku Amankwa, says if they wanted “to introduce uniforms for teachers, we wouldn’t do that through social media and over the weekend”.
He was of the view that “it’s some group of teachers who’ve decided to have a uniform. Or it could even be photoshop”.
Due to the development, he said the GES “may have to look for those in the pictures to first find out if indeed they’re teachers and if they’re what’s their motivation for the uniform”.
He said, “GES is not a mushroom agency. It’s the largest government agency in Ghana. We employ more than half of all government employees”.
He added,” In this era of unionized labour GES cannot introduce a uniform for teachers without engaging the teacher unions. Issues relating to who pays, government or individuals, the fabric, etc. would all have to be discussed”.
“Any national project of this kind may have to be announced and possibly launched officially,” he concluded.
Meanwhile, the photos have generated heated discussions on social media.