Teachers and staff of senior high schools across the country are expected to pay 10percent of their basic salaries as rent for occupying a school and government bungalows at the end of this month, March 2022, following the reactivation of a discussion that started some 16 years ago.
This move appears to be another strategy by the government to mobilize funds from every conceivable source as a result of the economic crisis it finds itself in, according to the World Bank and others.
Already, there is a deadlock on the passage of the law to charge 1.75percent on all financial transactions by electronic means.
A circular from the Ghana Education Service to that effect has been sighted by The Herald.