Agricola unrest...Cabinet rejects opposition’s explanation

Agricola unrest…Cabinet rejects opposition’s explanation – Dr Luncheon

Oct 19, 2012 News

– insists APNU, AFC to be blamed

Insisting that he was not to be blamed for last week Thursday’s civil unrest at Agricola, which left several commuters along the East Bank public road stranded, Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday pointed accusing fingers to the parliamentary opposition parties.
According to Dr. Luncheon not only are A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and the Alliance for Change (AFC) responsible for the action, but they are in fact guilty of hurling threats of consequences if President of the Administration, Donald Ramotar, did not adhere to their issued ultimatum. The Cabinet Secretary alluded to an ultimatum whereby the opposition parties had together called for the President to examine ministerial appointments.
The political opposition had days earlier warned Government of an organised protest “if within the next 48 hours Minister of Home Affairs, Clement Rohee, is not removed from office.”
Members of the political parties, during protest action outside Rohee’s office, echoed the view that the Home Affairs Minister was unfit for the portfolio even as they made reference to the escalation of killings by police ranks and unsolved crimes.
During protest action the party supporters disclosed that calls were also made for mass demonstrations for what is being deemed as a national crisis in the wake of recent killings.
It was in fact such promised plans that Dr. Luncheon alluded to yesterday as he related that “it was my performance here that was being proposed as the occasion for this activity (October 11 civil unrest) and we are contending that it is the ultimatum and the threat of consequences if the President rejected the ultimatum…”
According to Dr. Luncheon, both Cabinet and Cabinet Secretary have rejected the subsequent explanations by the opposition “for their orchestration of the Thursday October 11 civil unrest. The administration has properly pointed to the Nigel Hughes and Moses Nagamootoo ultimatum to President Ramotar about ministerial appointments….the unrest was promised in the face of the expected rejection/dismissal of the ultimatum given to the President,” he added.
Dr. Luncheon noted, too, that efforts by the opposition parties to vocalise explanations that the civil unrest erupted spontaneously in response to, and after, his remarks at his previous press briefing are not only “outrageous and insulting to those affected but to Guyanese in general.
“It is totally inconsistent with developments that took place subsequently to the submission…of the ultimatum.”
The Cabinet Secretary added that Government is not alone in rejecting the explanations and excuses of the parliamentary opposition but Guyanese, who were affected, have joined the administration to issue similar rejections.

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