Unpaid salaries of teachers, nurses due to reckless recruitment under NPP – Pelpuo
The Minister for Employment and Labour Relations, Dr. Abdul-Rashid Pelpuo, has attributed the ongoing salary delays affecting nurses, teachers, and junior doctors to what he described as poor recruitment practices and fiscal indiscipline under the former Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration.
His comments follow protests by frustrated health and education workers who claim to have worked for up to 10 months without pay. The Junior Doctors’ Association has also threatened to withdraw services if their arrears are not settled soon.
Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, Dr. Pelpuo called the situation “unfair” but insisted that it was inherited by the current administration.
“The situation is currently unfair, but it is a culmination of events that took place in the last regime before the current regime took over,” he explained.
“People were engaged to work without due process. For you to work and be paid, you need clearance to show that your employment has been approved and that there is funding available. That didn’t happen in this case.”
According to the minister, the previous government recruited over 12,000 individuals into the public sector after losing the 2024 elections, despite the absence of any financial provision to pay them.
“Over 12,000 people were engaged at the time the last administration had lost the elections. Where did they think the money would have come from?” he asked.
Dr. Pelpuo further disclosed that the three-month transitional budget handed over to the Mahama administration also lacked allocations for these new recruits, deepening the fiscal strain on the current government.
Despite these inherited constraints, he assured that the government is taking steps to resolve the issue.
“We are taking it up very seriously, and I can assure the nurses, teachers, and junior doctors who are caught up in the process that we are going to respond to them before the end of the year,” he promised.
Source: CitiNews
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