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Some unemployed graduates who sat the just ended Ghana Education Service, GES, assessment examinations to be considered for employment in the Senior High Schools, have gone 'mad' following their disappointment in the final selection list.

The graduates who specialised in subjects, including English Language, Mathematics, Science and Geography, who applied for the job were shortlisted to sit exams in some selected subjects following the numerous applications which were in excess of the required number needed to be recruited.

The main objective of the conduct of the exams was to select the best bet who met the requirement. About 2,400 applicants sailed through in the exams and are, therefore, requested to go to the various regional GES offices for their appointment letters.

But in a press conference in Bolgatanga of the Upper East Region, a coalition of some disgruntled GES job applicants registered their frustrations over their inability to sail through in the exams and questioned the criteria used by authorities of the GES in selecting the qualified applicants.

Addressing the news conference, the aggrieved applicants, led by their spokesperson, Robert Adabogo, expressed dismay over the rejection of 475 applicants out the 495 graduates who applied and were shortlisted for the examinations in the three regions in the north.

"Our worry is that about 530 people are qualified in the Ashanti Region, but only a minute number of 15 of us from the Northern, Upper East  and Upper West Regions, who wrote the exams in the Tamale WAEC centre, are qualified to be given appointment letters. This is highly unbelievable", he said.

They applicants, therefore, petitioned the Director-General of the GES and the ministry of Education to intervene to address their deficit.

Mr. Adabogo added he suspected a foul play and challenged the examiners and GES to publish their results.

The irate applicants lamented the selection criteria, saying, " out of the 183 science students who wrote the exams, only one person has been picked. Nobody is qualified out of the 99 graduates that sat the mathematics paper. In Geography, seven people have been selected out of the 150 applicants, while out of the 63 graduates who wrote the English paper, only seven of them have sailed through, respectively".

They also alleged some of their colleagues in the south who were not shortlisted or didn't have the requisite qualifications, had been posted to teach in the northern part of the country without index numbers.

Mr. Adabogo also hinted the frustrated applicants would in due course petition all the Regional Ministers in the three regions in the north to also intercede address the issue.