Consequently,
the Vice-President of the coalition, Mr King Ali Awudu, and the Deputy
General Secretary, Mr Ako Forson, have been asked to step in as
President and the General Secretary, respectively.
Addressing a
news conference in Accra yesterday, the Chairman of the Disciplinary
Committee of the CCT, Mr Samuel Antwi, said the decision was taken at
the just-ended National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held on
December 18, 2016.
Recounting
what led to the dismissal of the two leaders, Mr Antwi said the NEC
had, in December last year, asked Messrs Opoku and Darkwa to step aside
when the internal auditor’s report discovered that funds belonging to
the union had been misappropriated.
Investigations
by an external auditor, he said, confirmed the internal auditor’s
report and further revealed that
more money could not be accounted for.
more money could not be accounted for.
“Some
GH¢369,285.81 is the total sum that cannot be accounted for, while
GH¢44,703 cannot be traced to any expenditure, income or account
balance,” Mr Antwi added.
As a result of the
revelation in the external auditors report, he said, the NEC met in
April 2016 and proceeded to suspend Messrs Opoku and Darkwa and asked
them to refund the money within three months.
In June 2016, he said, Messrs Opoku and Darkwa sued the union at an Accra High Court but their case was thrown out by the court.
“So
now that we have won the case in the court, there is no need for us to
hold on to the story but to let the media and the entire Ghana know that
Messrs Opoku and Darkwa are no longer leaders of the union,” he said.
Mr
Antwi said the union would use all legal means to retrieve the money
from them and urged all members of the coalition to stay calm.
Other issues
Touching
on other issues, he said the union was prepared to work with the new
government to ensure that issues that affected the welfare of teachers,
especially it members, were addressed.
He denied
media reports that the union had given the incoming government a 100-day
ultimatum to restore teacher-trainee allowances as promised during the
campaign period.
“We didn’t give President-elect
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo any ultimatum. We only reminded him of his
promises to restore teacher-trainee allowances,” Mr Antwi added.
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