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Rohee takes offence to Granger’s crime statistics

May 08, 2011 News

Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, expressed his disappointment with People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Presidential Candidate, David Granger’s attempts to score political points by embellishing recent criminal occurrences and in the process, vilifying the unwavering efforts of Guyana’s law enforcement agencies.
The Minister said, yesterday, that while recently there has been rise in gun crimes in which persons were killed, this situation cannot be used as a barometer to measure the extent to which the crimes exist in Guyana.
“The Guyana Police Force and other law enforcement agencies are doing their utmost in order to bring down as far as possible the extent to which gun crimes are being committed in the country, an issue that is of much concern to all citizens, but we have to be careful not to engage in making this issue a political football,” the Minister said.
He maintained that politicising this situation would send the wrong signal to criminals, something that Granger seems to be leading towards.
“There will always be a contest with the perception of the facts; everyday people are subjected to what appears in some sections of the media, which engage in a lot of sensationalisation to sell their newspapers with respect to crime. Mr. Granger is obviously working in cahoots with those sections of the media which have a political agenda,” the Minister lamented.
With regards to Granger’s claims that the business community is the hardest hit, Minister Rohee said Government is constantly engaging the business community particularly, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce (GCC), Private Sector Commission (PSC) and other business entities, and that their concerns as it relates to security are never ignored by Government.
“It is true that the persons who are affected are from the business community and we are deeply concerned about this as well but to latch on to the crime situation and make it a political football is treading on dangerous ground and sending the wrong signal to those in society who are bent on deviant behaviour,” Minister Rohee reiterated.
He added that in all of the recent gun crimes, persons have been arrested, while some have been charged and taken to court. He added that to talk about the crimes that are committed but conveniently omitting the work of the police is doing a great disservice to the country’s law enforcement agencies.
“While the media gives front-page coverage to the crimes that are committed, it does not give the same kind of coverage to successes that the police have scored in these matters,” he said.
He called on Guyanese to keep supporting the efforts that are being made by the police and to get involved so as to make the country a safer place through a collective approach.

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