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Pres Ali’s refusal to remove Jagdeo, probe bribery allegations opening floodgates for widespread corruption – APNU+AFC
Kaieteur News – The refusal of the Irfaan Ali regime to investigate the allegations of bribery and corruption against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo continues to embolden the corrupt officers in the Guyana Police Force and other State institutions such as GuySuCo.
Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo
This view was expressed by the APNU +AFC opposition at the weekly press conference held on Tuesday. The party claimed that the government refusal to act could lead to further corruption, bribery, extra-judicial killings, and the unlawful cover up of murders and other illegalities as seen perpetrated by members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and PPP operatives in State institutions. “The PPP politicization of the GPF is clearly intended to protect the elite of the PPP, friends, and family. The PPP is compelled to criminalise the State so it can be protected. A state that operates based on the rule of law is impossible under the PPP. It is in this context, we again call on the Vice President to resign or be removed from office and for an international, credible investigation team be assembled to investigate the allegations against Bharrat Jagdeo,” the party outlined in their statement.
Scores of Guyanese, including those in civil society have called for an independent investigation to be conducted following the accusation leveled against Jagdeo by Chinese Businessman, Su Zhi Rong in a Vice News documentary published last month.
The Opposition was particularly vocal on the issue, making attempts to have the matter addressed at the level of Parliament. However, Speaker of the National Assembly, Manzoor Nadir dismissed the Opposition’s Motion calling for an independent probe of the allegations.
In announcing his decision on the matter, Nadir informed the House that the issue on hand must be of a “definite matter of urgent public importance,” and in his opinion, the issue regarding the VP was not. The Speaker said he has seen in the media many such allegations of corruption against many current members of the Assembly. “And if we have to take every allegation in the press on any issue as a matter of urgent public importance, then we are going to have, in my view, a Parliament that will be considerably diminished.”
This, the Speaker said, adding that in applying the two basic principles of urgency and public importance, “I do not see the urgency in this. While the issue of corruption is important to all of us, the urgency of the particular allegation I cannot accept and so I deny this request.”
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