Motion being crafted to remove Rohee as Minister - AFC

Motion being crafted to remove Rohee as Minister – AFC

Nov 15, 2012 News

– Rohee incompetent, not serving the interest of society
The Alliance For Change (AFC) in its quest to ensure a no confidence motion against Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee, says that conventions across the Commonwealth states stipulate that once there is a no confidence motion against a Government Minister, that Minister takes the honourable decision to resign in face of incompetence and lack of support.
“Our fight is not against Rohee as a Minister of the Government, but given the principle of passing a motion of no confidence as a majority in the opposition it would seem that all would have no meaning, and that is something the AFC wants to change as part of a majority opposition.”
He said the United Kingdom House of Commons, allows the House to sanction a Minister and call upon the Minister, having been sanctioned, to resign.
Noting that a motion has already been crafted and approved by the AFC and the A Partnership For National Unity (APNU), the AFC said the parties are not seeking to have Rohee removed from parliament but to relieve him of his Ministerial responsibilities. This can be done by a dismissal from the President or by demanding his resignation.
“We are made to understand that he is not resigning or that the president is not dismissing him, so we will take the relevant action that is needed.”
Underscoring that a matter is before the court and some may say let due process take its course, Ramjattan said the sub judice rule does not apply to parliament. “Because if they start bringing litigations in the court on any issue they feel they are not going to get the support of the opposition it will stultify what transpires in the national assembly and so we cannot go into a scenario every time saying that there is a court matter pending.”
AFC Parliamentarian, Cathy Hughes, said during Minister Rohee’s tenure there have been hundreds of killings, and several instances of weak leadership from the Minister that shows that he is incapable of being in charge of the country’s security sectors.
“How much longer should we accept Mr. Rohee, despite whatever he may think are his best intentions; despite the fact that the government thinks that he is their best Minister. At the end of the day, as a nation we cannot continue to have individuals that abuse their position and clearly cannot function in perpetuity.”
Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, had noted that based on the advice he received, the Home Affairs Minister cannot be prevented from addressing the National Assembly.
The advice the Speaker obtained, mirrors that which was offered by Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, when the motion was initially brought to the National Assembly.

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