APNU believes security situation can only be solved if it is in Govt. – Nandlall
October 23, 2013, By KNews, Filed Under News, Source
As he addressed the spate in crime at a recent People’s Progressive Party (PPP) press conference, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall asserted that, “it is clear based on the thinking of the Opposition, that the security situation in our country can only be solved with APNU in Government.”
Attorney General
Anil Nandlall
He said that the PPP came to that realization based on the position historically taken by the main opposition on the issue of crime and security since the PPP was elected to office in 1992.
He noted too that both the Alliance for Change (AFC) and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) agreed on the importance of the Firearms Amendment Bill to provide security forces with support in their anti-crime efforts, but refused to support the Bill in the National Assembly purely on the basis of having no confidence in Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee.
According to Nandlall, “Their (the Opposition’s) long list of centrally directed attacks has not only targeted Mr. Rohee, but every single Home Affairs Minister the PPP has appointed”.
The Minister opined that that apart, when taking the main Opposition’s much vaunted position about security, it would be instructive to look at the brand of security, APNU leader, David Granger and the PNC offered when they were in Government.
“It is clear that the best thing the PNC, now disguised as APNU, ever learnt when they were in Government in the area of security, was how to oppress and suppress the Opposition. We recall the fate of many Opposition activists at the hands of the PNC Government – under Burnham and then Hoyte, which Mr. Granger was a senior figure of and the party which he now leads – including Michael Forde, Arnold Rampersaud, the ballot box martyr, Father Darke, Dr. Walter Rodney, the humiliation suffered by Manzoor Nadir at the Square of the Revolution and scores of PPP and other Opposition activists including Dr. Cheddi Jagan and other PPP leaders.”
Nandlall further stated: “What is instructive from this is the fact that the PPP, which suffered the brunt of Mr. Granger’s brand of effective security when his party was in Government and we were in the Opposition, has now created an environment of freedom in which the PNC/APNU enjoys, and can fully express themselves.
This is a basic right which Mr. Granger and his party never, ever allowed our people in this country to enjoy when they were in Government…But let’s not only look at when they were in Government, the nation still vividly remembers in the year 2000 when the PNC draped the coffin of notorious criminal Linden ‘Blackie’ London with the national flag at the Square of the Revolution. The nation remembers the ‘slow fyaah, mo fyaah’ campaigns by the PNC during this period.
Mr. Granger and his party owe this nation an answer as to how their historic position on the issue of security has contributed to the stability and anti-crime efforts to protect our people.”
