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Beware of ‘Wild Men’ in our midst – Corbin tells PNCR Congress
PNCR’s Robert Corbin, in his final address to his party as Leader, decided that he would “bare his chest,” and singled out former Executive Members Joe Hamilton and Phillip Bynoe, as “the Wild Men in our midst.”
Party Leader Robert Corbin, delivers his final address in that capacity
Even as he hinted at a “tell all” Memoirs, Corbin ‘walked’ into Bynoe and Hamilton as the party’s 17th Biennial Congress got underway on Friday last at Congress Place.
“Beware of the Wild Men in our midst who have their nefarious agendas,” roared Corbin, even as he directed a message to Lindeners to maintain “the struggle” and warned party activists to “be aware of, and not be misled by those who seek to use the genuine problems of the citizens of Linden to satisfy their own partisan, political agendas or to achieve public recognition.”
Repeatedly referring to Bynoe as the “Wild Man,” Corbin warned of others that would pose as soldiers in “when in fact they are agents of the enemy.”
“The PNCR has had a wealth of experience in these matters…These Wild Men have sometimes caused the unnecessary deaths of our comrades in various struggles,” said Corbin as he laid the deaths during the invasion of the Office of the President several years ago, squarely at the feet of Bynoe, who was “acting on behalf of the enemy.”
Corbin in his attempt to connect the dots using his hindsight vision of what had occurred, said “It is significant that the main misleader of the struggle, waged a few years ago for better economic conditions across the country, deliberately violated the agreed plan and took a group of our marchers into the compound of the Office of the President.”
This, action according to Corbin, “led to the deaths of eight of our loyal comrades” who erroneously believed that they were carrying out Party instructions.
“That wild man,” he said, “is equally as guilty for the death of our comrades as those who fired their guns that day.”
Corbin said that it was this “indisciplined act, or more correctly, the premeditated act of an enemy agent, that prematurely brought that struggle to an end.”
The Party leader who demitted office yesterday, told those gathered at Congress Place on Friday that, “It is known that the PNCR never planned to invade the Office of the President that day, but our Party had to bear the consequences of the indisciplined act of a few.”
Phillip Bynoe
The veteran politician told the party’s highest forum that, “In hindsight, we have to ask ourselves, how is it that the main ‘wild man’ was never captured for five years?….During this period, he boasted of having direct telephone contact with then President (Bharrat) Jagdeo.”
Corbin implored on his party and its supporters that “We also have to also ask ourselves how this same ‘wild man’ ended up as a Candidate and main campaigner in Region #10 for the PPP/C at the 2011 General Elections.”
Speaking directly to the Region 10 mining town, which is currently described as “under siege”, Corbin said that they must remember that, it is this same ‘wild man’ who as a PNCR Member of Parliament voted with the PPP, “against his own Party’s position and facilitated the PPP’s sale of the Electricity generation facility at Linden to a private company called Texas Ohio.”
Corbin announced that this ‘Wild Man’ eventually became its Chief Local Executive Officer and Corbin said that “He too, with Prime Minister Mr. Sam Hinds, must answer for the electricity situation at Linden, which the PNCR warned about since then.”
The Former Opposition Leader in Parliament, who was recently honoured in the Chambers, told his party that as they reflect on the “Office of the President martyrs, it is also significant that in the midst of that debacle, another ‘wild man’, then a leading Executive Member of the PNCR, who knew differently, wrote a letter to the press under his own name with the caption, “The Mad Men at Congress who sanctioned the break-in at the Office of the President should hang their heads in shame.”
Corbin was on this occasion drawing reference to Joseph Hamilton the party’s former Executive Member.
“He knew that there was no such plan at Congress Place, yet he sought to create confusion and damage the image of our Party at a time when the Party needed unity and solidarity to rally in support of our fallen comrades who had been misled.”
Joe Hamilton, former PNCR Executive member turned PPP/C Executive
Corbin revealed that it was no surprise to him that “he (Hamilton) too like the ‘wild man’ from Linden ended up being a Candidate for the PPP/C at the last elections and is now a non-voting Member of Parliament for that Party.
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