Unusual Appointments At NCA, Others

Over a dozen appointments have been made by the management of the National Communications Authority (NCA), the body responsible for radio frequency regulation in the country in the past few days.

An internal source who hinted DAILY GUIDE about the appointments wondered why such a process would be conducted in the twilight of the incumbent political administration.

The unusual appointments, the source said, is intended to make it challenging for the new government to revoke the employment of those who have been so engaged.

Like other appointments in state agencies since the present government assumed the mantle of leadership, beneficiaries have been appointed through cronyism.

The NCA is not alone in this spate of unusual appointment of persons who have links with the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or top government functionaries. One of the intelligence organizations is said to have also engaged some staff in the past few days since the curtains were drawn over the recent polls.

In all the scenarios, however, words have reached the DAILY GUIDE through insiders. It is not known how the incoming administration would tackle what doubtlessly breaches standards.

The incoming administration under the circumstances might be constrained to go the way of the outgoing government when it assumed the leadership in 2008.

At the time, it would be recalled that some prospective recruits who were awaiting their call-up date were eventually denied the opportunity as their enlistment was revoked.

As we compose this story, the fate of over two thousand chief inspectors who wrote an entrance examination for entry into the Police College as Cadet Officers and eventually commissioning as Assistant Superintendent of Police hangs in the balance.

Given the many breaches which featured in the examination and the politicization of those penciled for the exercise, it is likely going to be scrapped going by the previous order when the NDC assumed power in 2009.

DAILY GUIDE has learnt about hurried formalization of land deals in prime parts of Accra as government appointees mount pressure on civil servants at the Lands Commission and other relevant departments.

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