A SWAT team was deployed to the Ghana Education Service (GES) headquarters in Accra to maintain order during a protest by hundreds of trained teachers demanding the payment of salaries owed to them for the past 10 months.
According to eyewitnesses, the teachers had gathered peacefully at the premises to picket, calling on the government and the GES to address their unpaid arrears, which they say have made living and working conditions unbearable.
The Ghana Police Service deployed the SWAT unit as part of a standard crowd control response aimed at ensuring public safety and preventing any possible escalation.
Activist and #FixTheCountry campaigner Oliver Barker-Vormawor has criticized the deployment in a Facebook post, contrasting the teachers’ struggles with the timely payment of security personnel.
“A SWAT Team was unleashed on them. The SWAT team’s salary has been fully paid. No arrears,” he wrote, implying a disparity in how the state responds to financial obligations to different categories of public servants.
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