Trainee teachers must do National Service – Napo

Education Minister, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh has stated that agitating trainee teachers will be made to undertake their national service despite their protests.

According to him, the trainee teachers would have to explain why they feel they should be exempted from undertaking their national service when other trained professionals undertake their mandatory national service.

Hundreds of unemployed teachers converged on the Obra Spot at Circle in Accra on Wednesday, to take part in a demonstration to demand postings from the government.

The teachers say they will not adhere to a directive from the government to post them as National Service personnel.

But Matthew Opoku Prempeh said the trainee teachers cannot be employed permanently if they do not undertake their national service