Children of PPP/C members are ‘vampires’, ‘centipedes’ – according to APNU+AFC member James Bond
April 21, 2015, Source
AS the political atmosphere intensifies in the face of General and Regional Elections, a series of attacks have been made against the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) last Friday evening by Youths of A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) at a youth rally held in New Amsterdam, Berbice.The rally suffered a poor turn-out of youths in the traditional PPP stronghold, with a majority of the few hundred in attendance being adults.
APNU+AFC Youth rep. Malika Ramsey
APNU youth representative Malika Ramsey was among the many speakers who sought to lambaste the PPP, taking it as far as accusing them of “child exploitation.” Selling the idea that the ruling party was guilty of “child exploitation”, Ms Ramsey told the gathering that a manifestation of this exploitation was that, “the PPP is forcing children to wear their campaign T-shirts.”
“This is nothing short of child exploitation” the APNU+AFC youth representative said, adding that, “parents who are allowing these practices, shame on you! And shame on the PPP! Stop exploiting your children, and stop helping the PPP to exploit your children!” she exhorted.
But the chain of attacks did not end there, as attorney-at-law James Bond, another youth representative of the coalition, also accused the children of PPP members of being “vampires” and “centipedes”. According to Bond, who had found himself in controversy over comments made at a previous youth rally, “If yuh pappa and yuh mummah suh cruel to yuh, much (less) the pickney.”
Bond, the APNU+AFC youth leader went on to say: “What they’re doing is creating a next generation of centipedes and vampires to feast on you.”
Bond had, just last week, found himself in much controversy after he had issued a call for parents to “kick out” their children from their homes should they (the children) refuse to vote at the May 11 elections.
Bond was recorded as saying at the preceding Youth Rally hosted by Youths for David Granger: “If you got a son or a daughter under your roof, and they say they are not voting, you kick them out!”
He had further urged parents: “Don’t put them out on the landing or the step or the gate; kick them right out the house!”
This call for parents to “kick their children out the house” was maintained, despite coming against heavy criticisms from political pundits and commentators, as Bond intentionally repeated his call once again, last Friday at Berbice, for parents to kick their children out should they exercise a constitutional right of refusing to vote.
