About 37 officials, both former and present, are reportedly scrambling to be named or appointed into various positions of trust, mainly as city mayors in any of the 6 local cities, as well as being Superintendent of Nimba County.
Those cities include Ganta, Bahn, Karnplay, Tappita, Saclepea, and Sanniquellie.
Of the above-mentioned number, 5 are vying to be Superintendent, while the rest of them are fighting to occupy the city mayor positions.
However, according to the report, unlike the outgoing President George Manneh Weah, who entrusted the local appointment in Nimba during his tenure to Senator Prince Yormie Johnson, incoming President, Joseph Nyuma Boakai, might tread a different path.
With this, the report said there is heightening tension in the county, as while others want Johnson to continue being in charge of the local appointments, others deem it that it should not be, because of the electoral division that has engulfed the county in the aftermath of the elections last November.
Accordingly, the report said majority of the Nimbaians are demanding for higher positions in the incoming regime, on grounds that had it not been for their votes, the Unity Party or Boakai could not have been elected as President of the country.
It went forward that because of the above, those who supported the party (UP) want Johnson to handle the appointments, while others prefer that the appointments should be made by others or Boakai himself.
