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PPP lashes out at MMU over unfavourable review

Apr 28, 2015 News

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Clement Rohee, yesterday lashed out at the Media Monitoring Unit (MMU) for the reports that criticize actions by the state as reported in the media.
Yesterday, at the Party’s weekly press conference at Freedom House, Robb Street, Georgetown, Rohee said that the PPP “strongly condemns the biased and politically motivated attacks on the Party and its leaders, by GECOM’s (Guyana Elections Commission) Media Monitoring Unit.”
He said that recent public statements released by the MMU are full of “rhetoric and aimed at creating civil unrest during this very sensitive period in our country.”
Rohee declared that the MMU must not be allowed to function in isolation and called on GECOM to take “full ownership and responsibility and provide proper guidance and supervision to this body.”
He found it necessary to note that the MMU is not an independent body, but rather an arm of the Elections Commission “hence, public statements must be vetted by GECOM to ensure that its reporting is accurate and responsible.”
Further, Rohee said that the “wild and loose attacks on former President Bharrat Jagdeo seems to be opposition driven and draw much comparison to Kaieteur News, INews and Stabroek News attacks on Jagdeo. The MMU should not be allowed to be used as the opposition mouthpiece and to operate as a law onto itself.”
The General Secretary said that the PPP has had cause to write GECOM and the Commissioner of Police, complaining of racially inciting statements by leading members of the APNU+AFC Coalition on National television “however, to date, not a single response was received from GECOM’s Media Monitoring Unit.”
Rohee suggested that the “PPP and `its leaders seems to be the target of this unit while the opposition is allowed to utter and escape with all sorts of derogatory and racist remarks.”
He then called on GECOM to take control of the MMU and to closely monitor its work and releases. “A more responsible and sober approach is needed to temper the election tension among our people,” said Rohee.

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