The Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana (CETAG) has halted all services in response to the government's decision to freeze their July salaries.

On July 22, the Ghana Tertiary Education Commission (GTEC) instructed the Controller and Accountant General’s Department to withhold the salaries of all CETAG members on strike, excluding the Principals, for July 2024.

In retaliation, CETAG declared on July 23 that it is suspending all services immediately. This includes halting attendance at meetings, participation in ceremonies, academic counseling, and student supervision in residence halls.

The decision was made during an emergency National Council meeting.

CETAG has also sought legal advice regarding the government’s salary freeze directive.

GTEC has urged the striking CETAG members to resume their duties, assuring them that their concerns are being addressed.

“I will plead with them that look we cannot continue to bastardise our institutions in this manner of continual perennial strikes because the more you go on strike the more you make your institutions unattractive,” the Acting Director General of GTEC, Professor Ahmed Jinapor Abdulai said.