“Colossal failures, lies & half-truths” – Rohee debunks Govt’s “1-year” achievement

People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee has completely disregarded the achievements that the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Administration claimed to have realised in its one year in office.
To mark its first year in executive office, the Administration released an advertisement highlighting 50 measures it has achieved.
Among those were: increased salaries for public servants, fighting corruption, press freedom restored, new townships, lower crime rates, better streets and roads, Local Government Elections held after 22 years, and a clean Georgetown,.
However, according to Rohee, almost 80 per cent of the claimed achievements are downright lies and half-truths.
On the matter of salary increases, the General Secretary pointed out that if this were the case, the workers unions at their May Day Rally would never have demanded Government delink the completion of the Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service from the overdue increases.
He also challenged the claim that press freedom was restored.
“If this is the case, the Government needs to explain why the US State Department’s 2015 Report hammered the APNU/AFC Government on the lack of press freedom in Guyana?” he posited.
On the hosting of Local Government Elections after 22 years, Rohee argued that this was a blatant distortion of the truth.
“The facts are that the PNC utilised every effort to prevent the holding of the Local Government Elections following successive General and Regional Elections since 2006. They frustrated the work of the Task Force set up to review the laws and as a consequence, had no alternative but to support Motion after Motion laid in the National Assembly calling for the postponement of Local Government Elections,” he emphasised.
Regarding the crime situation, Rohee lambasted the Government for failing miserably to develop a strategic plan to deal with the issue.
“The security experts ensconced at the Ministry of the Presidency have all failed. They are tripping over each other trying to prove who knows best. There is no anti-crime plan; “Operation Dragnet” is a colossal failure. Citizens do not feel safe on the streets nor at work or in their own homes. Public safety and security has turned out to be a total disaster,” he stressed.
Rohee went on to discredit a number of other claimed achievements, dubbing the advertisement as nothing but sheer propaganda.
In this regard, he called on the general populace to not be misled or fooled by the “shenanigans” of the current Government.