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Information reaching Peacefmonline.com indicates that 3,000 frustrated professional teachers in Tamale in the Northern Region are demonstrating against government over their unpaid allowances. The teachers said they have not been paid their actual salaries after graduating from the various teacher training colleges in 2010. The teachers have vowed not to return to the classroom until government pays them their over one year allowances. According to Peace FM's Northern Regional Correspondent, Kwabena Ntow, the peaceful demonstration by the irate teachers some of whom wore red bands amidst the chanting of war songs with some bearing placards which read; �No arrears no teaching�, �Government we want our arrears�, �Why the delay� and �Aba Controller,� has suddenly turned violent with some of them vandalizing properties. It will be recalled that the unpaid teachers on September 29 at a news conference addressed by their president Alhassan Mohammed Soawii in Tamale declared their intension to embark on demonstration if government turns deaf ears on their request. Below are their grievances on a petition presented to the Northern Regional Coordinating Council