Buzz: AFC sent to the back of the Unity Train
The Prime Minister shall have responsibility for….Recommending Ministerial appointments and providing the organizational structures of Ministries for the approval of the President” Cummingsburg Accord February 14 2015
Where’s Paul Harris to draw the Unity Train now with Granger and his foot soldiers commandeering the locomotive and the AFC sequestered in the caboose. The way we look at the composition of this Cabinet, aside from its failure to gain a 40/60 split of positions, the AFC has been outflanked and marginalised to the point where its power and influence is perhaps down to 20%.
But the media remains largely unquestioning celebrating the vision of the President (when it was supposed to be a coalition government), celebrating the lack of sirens on his entourage, the cleaning up of the arch. And there’s not a whisper from the AFC, not one…. but…wait…like the canary in the coal mine here comes the WPA’s Tacuma Ogunseye protesting that Granger “did not and presumably, has not seen it fit to call a meeting of the APNUs executive members to discuss and reach an agreement on our post-election responsibilities.” When asked Granger basically said he had been too busy and one would be held “hopefully this weekend or early next week.” And so much for that coalition.
Meanwhile Granger when asked about the fate of the Central Intelligence Unit which was rumoured to be spying on citizens said, “we are going to establish a National Security Agency (NSA) and that section will be incorporated into the NSA.” No thorough investigation of its past operations and a publication of a report? No. And doesn’t this fall under Ramjattan’s portfolio or has he also been stripped of responsibility for what would be a parallel security apparatus?