Another manifestation of hypocrisy -
Written by DAVE MARTINDALE
Monday, 20 February 2012 21:30
KINDLY allow me the space and time to share my perspective on an interesting political occurrence that transpired recently. The third sitting of the National Assembly provided another manifestation of the hypocrisy that is usually displayed by the combined parliamentary Opposition.
In the December 16th 2010 edition of the Guyana Times, leader of the AFC and current House Speaker, Raphael Trotman, is reported to have said, “A country needs awards because the people need to see that their peers are achieving and are being recognised.”
He lamented the fact that an entire cycle of primary school students would’ve passed through the system without witnessing the ‘red carpet affair’.
“They have read about it in books, like history,” he pointed out. “It’s a national shame and abomination.”
From this statement one would naturally expect that Trotman’s party would be favourably inclined to support the institutional mechanisms that make this event possible.
However, at the third sitting of the National Assembly, the AFC parliamentarians joined their APNU colleagues in voting down expenditure for the 2011 national investiture ceremony contained in the supplementary paper #7. Does this surprise anyone? The answer should be no.
Ever since the November 28, 2011 elections, it appears that the AFC has forged an unbreakable bond with the PNC’s APNU and seems constrained to support all of the latter’s actions, street protests included.
They have misused the trust of those who voted against many of the disproportionate actions of the PNC in the past. And the kind of hypocrisy they demonstrated when joining the APNU to vote against something which they had initially clamoured for is the kind the PNC is noted for.
Written by DAVE MARTINDALE
Monday, 20 February 2012 21:30
KINDLY allow me the space and time to share my perspective on an interesting political occurrence that transpired recently. The third sitting of the National Assembly provided another manifestation of the hypocrisy that is usually displayed by the combined parliamentary Opposition.
In the December 16th 2010 edition of the Guyana Times, leader of the AFC and current House Speaker, Raphael Trotman, is reported to have said, “A country needs awards because the people need to see that their peers are achieving and are being recognised.”
He lamented the fact that an entire cycle of primary school students would’ve passed through the system without witnessing the ‘red carpet affair’.
“They have read about it in books, like history,” he pointed out. “It’s a national shame and abomination.”
From this statement one would naturally expect that Trotman’s party would be favourably inclined to support the institutional mechanisms that make this event possible.
However, at the third sitting of the National Assembly, the AFC parliamentarians joined their APNU colleagues in voting down expenditure for the 2011 national investiture ceremony contained in the supplementary paper #7. Does this surprise anyone? The answer should be no.
Ever since the November 28, 2011 elections, it appears that the AFC has forged an unbreakable bond with the PNC’s APNU and seems constrained to support all of the latter’s actions, street protests included.
They have misused the trust of those who voted against many of the disproportionate actions of the PNC in the past. And the kind of hypocrisy they demonstrated when joining the APNU to vote against something which they had initially clamoured for is the kind the PNC is noted for.