Re-nominate DCE for reconsideration --students appeal

Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 16 Nov '98 Students from the Bongo district of the Upper East region in the University of Science and Technology (UST) and the Kumasi Campus of the University College of Education, Winneba (UCEW), have appealed to President J. J. Rawlings to re-nominate Mr Albert Abongo as the District Chief Executive for Bongo. A press statement signed by Mr Isaac Ayamba of UST and Mr John Ayambilla of UCEW, in Kumasi, said they were shocked, dismayed and disheartened by the row over the confirmation of Mr Abongo as the District Chief Executive. ''We were greatly disappointed that even after the second round of voting on October 29, the assembly members failed to confirm the President's nominee. The students condemned the brute force and savagery by some individuals or groups which resulted in chaos and the subsequent injury suffered by some citizens as well as the attack on security personnel in the district which they described as ''unwarranted.'' They noted that the district created about 10 years ago is one of the most deprived districts for which peace, unity and consensus devoid of wranglings and needed to push forward its development goals. The students reminded the assembly men that they are ''more important issues like health- care, infrastructure, education and widespread abject poverty which should be their concern'' rather than ''the unproductive waste of time, energy and resources by the show of personal animosities in the confirmation of the President's nominee.''