Consultation on key appointments…

AFC calls for Granger, Ramotar

to “get on with the job”

  The Alliance For Change (AFC) is calling on all Guyanese to take a stand and demand their Constitutional Rights, among them and most importantly; an Ombudsman, a Human Rights Commission, a Public Appellate Tribunal and a Public Procurement Commission. AFC’s Treasurer, Dominic Gaskin at a press conference yesterday, said that Guyanese have, for too long, been denied these rights as a result of the Government not taking the necessary steps to have these offices filled.

AFC Dominique Gaskin

Gaskin told media operatives that “the AFC recognises that filling these offices calls for consultation between the President and the Leader of the Opposition and we call on the holders of these two offices to ‘get on with the job”. He posited that leaving these critical offices vacant could be viewed as a denial of democracy and of the oath of elected officials to honour and uphold the Constitution. “In addition, it does not harbour well for the promotion and preservation of law when our Constitution, the supreme law of our land, is being subverted by way of non-compliance or disregard for sections of that document. Our President, Ministers and other elected officials need to be brought to task for this state of affairs and it is time for all citizens, in their private capacity and through civil society representative organisations and non-governmental organisations to demand all our constitutional rights.” Gaskin pointed out the recent “huge hue and cry over” the continued operation of the Ethnic Relations Commission, though all the nominated Commissioners would have served their full term in office. “The AFC demands that the same fervour be placed on filling the offices of the other Commissions, Tribunal and Office of the Ombudsman. They are as equally important as the ERC.”