The Coalition of Students of the School of Hygiene and some Unposted Environmental Health Officers are protesting the government’s delay in the payment of their trainee allowances, which have been outstanding for two years.
Currently, at the Ministry of Sanitation and Water Resources, the group is also demanding financial clearance for the posting and deployment of all hygiene graduates.
For them, efforts to get their concerns addressed have fallen on deaf ears.
Speaking to Channel One News, the spokesperson of the group, Fredrick Awine Atinga, called on the government to listen to their plea.
“We have been in the house for the past four years without jobs after graduating from the three Schools of Hygiene. We have done different courses altogether; Environmental Health Officers, Operational Health and Safety Officers, and Operational Therapists, and the government since 2021 to date has not posted any of these batches.
“We are here to demand our clearance and postings because the engagement with the government since 2021 up to date has not yielded any results. They keep giving us excuses upon excuses. They tell us it is in the pipeline.
“We are not leaving until the government gives us our clearance and postings. Within 24 hours, we are going to be here to ensure the government listens to us and the minister Hon. Lydia Alhassan comes back to this ministry and listens to us and takes our petitions and grievances, giving us the concrete assurance that tomorrow we are starting. That we are posted today and are starting work tomorrow,” he stated.
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