PPP never read MMU report

Apr 11, 2015 News

…but criticises MMU for chiding Jagdeo

The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), has accused the Media Monitoring Unit of bias.
A letter signed by PPP’s Executive Secretary, Zulfikar Mustapha was sent to the Unit on Thursday, two days after the report was released.
In the letter, the PPP registered its “strong objection to the decision of the Media Monitoring Unit to label a speech by former President Bharat Jagdeo at Babu Jaan on March 8, as racially divisive.”
Jagdeo had said “…Consistently, they shout about racism of the PPP, but they practise racism. They whisper campaigns. In the last elections they went to some of the Afro-Guyanese villages and beat some drums at 6 o’clock in the morning and say let us throw out these coolie people.
“Get up, go out and vote; throw out the coolie people. That’s the kind of language they use. Anybody from our party who uses that sort of language, we will kick them out. This is our approach.”
These remarks had caught the attention of the MMU which on Tuesday made public its first report on the media coverage of the election campaign.
Addressing the public outcry over Jagdeo’s delivery, the MMU noted that after it reviewed a broadcast of the speech made by Jagdeo at Port Mourant last month, it found his remarks racially divisive.
The MMU chided sections of the media for publishing the comments, because the unit “verily concluded that the remarks made by Dr. Jagdeo were racially divisive.”
The MMU made it known that Jagdeo’s Babu Jaan speech was the first time such details were ever publicly disclosed by anyone from the ruling PPP/C, the Opposition political parties, local civil society, international elections observers, or the media.
The letter sent by the PPP/C stated that it regarded the position adopted by the MMU as unfair and a gross misinterpretation of what was actually said.
“Was the speech of Jagdeo reviewed in its entirety? No reasonable mind could have arrived at such an interpretation. Jagdeo was simply reciting what was actually being peddled by other political parties…We in the PPP have always and will continue to condemn racism.”
The PPP added, “We note your conspicuous omission to express a view on Kaieteur News’s very skewed and malicious twist of what Jagdeo said in an article a day after the event under the screaming headline, “PPP is a coolie people party- Jagdeo”.
Those statements clearly indicate that the Party did not read the report in its entirety.
The PPP said that is has cause to question the MMU’s objectivity as well as the organisation’s professionalism “and perhaps political bias. In the circumstances, we request a review of your decision at the earliest possible time and a retraction of what you published in relation thereto.”

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