AFC wants Unity Government:
At a public meeting in Bush Lot, West Berbice Sunday night, AFC Vice-Chairman Moses Nagamootoo assured that the AFC in government will not pursue vengeance if the Ramotar government is replaced, but will invite the PPP to share in the new government with other patriotic parties and social forces. "We will not interfere with any police or judicial processes against officials who are accused with crimes against the people, but we will offer the PPP three places in the new Cabinet so they can sit down and observe how an honest government works; how the wealth of our country is shared equally and how genuine development for all is planned and executed," the former top aide to Cheddi Jagan and minister under four presidents said.
Mr. Nagamootoo said that under a new government there would be no discrimination against section of the society based on race, and the AFC will put an end to the destructive politics where half of the population are not included or involved in the governance of their country. "All of us are Guyanese. We are all proud Guyanese, and Guyana belongs to all of us! We must dream that one day my grandchildren could hold hands with other children and walk together not as Indians, Africans, Amerindians, Chinese and Portuguese, but as Guyanese!"
Nagamootoo, a veteran journalist and parliamentarian, said that the AFC had placed unity of our people as its major priority. "Even if the talks with APNU go no where in this short span of time, history must say that the AFC made a bold effort at a time when Guyana was in danger, to have a new government built on the alternative model of unity and inclusion."
He asked the mostly Indo-Guyanese audience to vote on May 11 not on the basic of race, but after looking into the eyes of their children, and promising them change for the better under a new leadership that could re-work the economy, restore profitability to the rice and sugar industries, revamp the MMA scheme and give lands to genuine farmers, and re-organize the regional democratic system to serve the people's interest. "This election is about your children and their future well being, and not about whether your hair is straight or curly." [Moses Nagamootoo Facebook page]
