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Granger, Jagdeo meet today on Police, Public Service Commission appointees
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has expressed concerns over President David Granger’s proposal to appoint former Assistant Commissioner Paul Slowe as Chairman of the Police Service Commission.
At a press conference yesterday, Jagdeo disclosed that he will be meeting the President today at 11 a.m. at State House, to discuss the appointees for the Police Service Commission and the Public Service Commission.
While not mentioning Slowe by name, Jagdeo indicated that the President’s choice to chair the police commission is a worrying sign.
“I want to share with the President how I feel, particularly his nominee for the Chairman of the Police Service Commission. I think the person is political. The person was doing political work for APNU (A Partnership for National Unity) in the past election that is on a senior level,” Jagdeo stated.
He added that the President’s nominee recently demonstrated a lack of capacity of fairness.
Slowe was appointed last July to head the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the alleged assassination plot against the President.
By August 31, after public hearings, the report was submitted to the President with wide-ranging recommendations to reform the top brass of the force.
“I believe it is worrying, because policemen will not be treated fairly with that individual chairing the police service commission. It will further demoralize the police force,” Jagdeo noted.
It was during the PPP Government that Slowe was denied promotion within the Guyana Police Force before he retired in 2010. If the President holds firm to his decision, Slowe will chair the police commission which is empowered to undertake promotions and disciplinary proceedings in the Force.
Slowe was nominated by the Parliamentary Select Committee of Appointments along with Clinton Andrew Conway, former Assistant Commissioner of Police; Vesta Geneva Adams, former Woman Assistant Commissioner of Police; and Claire Alexis Jarvis, former Woman Assistant Commissioner of Police.
The names will now be presented to President David Granger for further consideration.
The life of the former Commission, which was chaired by Omesh Satyanand, expired in August 2017.
The National Assembly has approved the nominees for the Public Service Commission as Vincent Bowman and Mortimer Livan which were put forward in the eighth report of the Committee which was published in March.
The life of the Public Service Commission also expired in August 2017.
Last year, the president had ordered a Commission of Inquiry into the commission which found serious breaches in the operations of the previous body.
Meanwhile, Jagdeo said that he plans to eke out some time with the President to raise additional issues of national importance. One such issue is the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) $30B Bond.
“The opportunities are extremely rare where we meet, even though there are a large number of issues that have serious national consequences. But because of his (Granger’s) reluctance to engage, not only with the media, in a meaning manner, we have these rare opportunities to raise additional issues,” Jagdeo stated.
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