Stephen Desu, the president of Innovative Teachers, has objected to teachers receiving computers under the ‘one teacher, one laptop’ program.
Teachers in the country, he claims, do not want to work with a locally assembled laptop. “It took Covid to remind us that Ghanaian teachers require laptops.” Okay, we agree, but what type of computers are you referring to?”
Mr Desu said on Tuesday’s PM Express that the computers supplied by the government under the One Teacher, One Laptop policy are “crap.”
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“We don’t want RLG laptops here, we don’t want any locally produced laptops here; whatever they’re distributing is garbage.” The computers being supplied do not comply with the law, and it is therefore illegal to manufacture and distribute a product without certification,” he informed Evans Mensah.
He also mentioned that the contract made by the K.A Technology company with the government to deliver laptops to teachers qualifies for that purpose. He claimed that this was due to the fact that “K.A Technology has no track record in manufacturing laptops in Ghana and so does not qualify for this contract.”
He added that the documentation the Technology company took to’ PPA’ were hurriedly provided within November.
“We’ve gone to all these places to verify and they told us that it was in November and everything took place in November 2020 so a company with no track record, a company with no certification by Ghana Standard Authority, how did it get this contract? Go and check the procurement log it is clear,” he stated.
This comes after government decided to deduct an amount of GH¢509 from the teachers’ professional development allowance as payment for the one-teacher, one laptop policy.
He said no teacher requested a laptop from government but “the union themselves that is NAGRAT, CCT alone they took the decision among themselves to go and ask for the laptops.” He argued that it is the duty of the employer in accordance with the labour law to provide the tools teachers need to work.
Therefore, the teachers would guard their allowances jealously to prevent any deduction, added.
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