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An open letter to Clement Rohee

May 04, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Clement,
Please rest assured that I am committed to meaningfully addressing this issue (the attitude of the Regional Executive Officers in PPP RDCs). What currently obtains is that the REOs are refusing to cooperate with their respective councils. That they are aided and abetted by central government is both an aberration and a travesty. It represents a perverse form of disrespect for the role and authority of local democratic organs in particular and local democracy in general.
I would have thought that our engagement with the Head, Presidential Secretariat, last year on this very issue would have prevented it from recurring, but alas, it is not to be.
It has been clear to me for the longest while that the government has determined that local government and local democracy will be a casualty for their loss of control of the National Assembly. The examples are numerous and commonplace.
For example, I recently addressed several questions to several Ministers for written responses all dealing with this issue of miniaturizing, marginalizing, indeed bypassing constitutional bodies such RDCs and even the National Assembly. The answers that have been provided so far in my opinion only compound the disrespect.
In the case of my question regarding the No-confidence Motion passed in 2012 against the REO, Region Eight, this seems to have been ignored!
Kind regards,
Ronald Bulkan

PS: I note that you have sent your letter to the Chronicle as well and I look forward to seeing this published there, particularly given that they recently carried an article in which it stated that I was “flayed” by Minister Ganga Persaud for my ignorance.    

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