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APNU has a mockery of the Constitution
Dear Editor,
I had to reach for my glasses when I read in the November 19 Chronicle that the APNU has said that the Constitution would guide discussions between the grouping and the AFC.
It was unbelievable that a grouping which has left no stone unturned and used every conceivable trick and ploy to avoid the Constitutional consequences of the no confidence motion is trumpeting Constitutional compliance.
This is a grouping which has not hidden, at least in a convincing way, its agenda to undermine constitutional agencies and actors.
We need not forget the imposition of the GECOM Chairman, Justice (Ret’d) James Patterson.
Or the improper removal of Commissioner of Information, Charles Ramson who, I recently read, had his decision stayed.
Or, how could we forget former Chairman of the Public Service Commission, Carvil Duncan?
How could we forget too that personalities of both the APNU and the AFC had sought to insert themselves into the work of Constitutional agencies.
We saw a minister seeking to inject herself in the hiring of public servants.
Or the almost instruction by a top official that GECOM pursue house-to-house registration because he felt the voters list was bloated and needed to be revised.
This has turned out not to be the case.
Or the inventing of all sorts of incredulous contentions to ignore, skirt around and bypass our laws, practices and norms.
The officials of the APNU have made a mockery of Constitutional compliance and then they now seek to say with a straight face they want to abide by the Constitution. This would have been a laughing matter if it weren’t so serious.
Alicia Doobay
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