Applicants for UE seek NDC appointment(D/G Friday, January 23,2009. Pg 16)

Story: Benjamin Xornam Glover, Bolgatanga
A Number of individuals have put in their application, through the Upper East Regional Secretariat of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), the ruling party, for consideration either as Ministers of State, municipal or district chief executives across the region. The Upper East Regional Secretary of the NDC, Mr Donatus Akamugre, who disclosed this to the Daily Graphic in an interview in Bolgatanga, however, stopped short of disclosing the identities of the personalities who had shown interest in being part of the new administration. “I can confirm to you that we have received a number of application letters and Curriculum Vitae (CVs) from a number of people in this region. These people have been selected by the various constituencies as credible people who have served the party in various capacities and also possess what it takes to participate in the governance of the nation,” he said, According to him, the task of the Regional Secretariat was to simply forward the list to the Transitional Team in Accra for consideration. For those seeking appointment as municipal or district chief executives, Mr Akamugre said after the various constituency executives had provided the names of potential persons, the regional executive, in connection with the Transitional Team, would conduct interviews at the regional level to screen the applicants, after which a final list would be submitted to Accra for them to select two or three persons, one of whom would be nominated for the position of municipal chief executive. The Upper East Region has two municipal assemblies and seven district assemblies. They are the Bolgatanga and Bawku municipalities, and the Bongo, Talensi-Nabdam, Kassena-Nankana, Kassena-Nankana West, Builsa, Garu-Tempane, and Bawku West districts. Mr Akamugre maintained that the NDC was endowed with quality human resource that it can readily tap to prosecute its agenda for a better Ghana, and urged all Ghanaians to have faith in Professor Mill’s administration to deliver on its promises.