The Minister of Education, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh says over 93,000 teachers would have been employed by the end of President Akufo-Addo’s first term.

According to him, all these teachers would have been unemployed if former President John Mahama had been retained in the 2016 presidential polls.

The Minister contends that the Akufo-Addo led administration prioritised teachers and their welfare which helped to place Ghana second in a recent world ranking measuring the status of teachers.

He was speaking at the sixth edition of the Nation Building Updates in Accra.

Dr. Opoku Prempeh added that processes will begin on Monday, November 2, 2020, for over 6,000 teachers to be employed.

“In the last four years, the national clearances given and recruitments that have been done at the end this term would amount to 93,824. Under former President John Dramani Mahama, the country had unemployment graduate teachers association but under President Akufo-Addo over 24,000 teacher graduates have already been employed and on Monday, recruitment processes would open for another 6,000 graduate teachers.”

“Per the diploma culture, processes will close on Sunday where over 14,000 teachers are going to be recruited. This is because President Akufo-Addo cares about the Ghanaian students and the Ghanaian teachers.”