Opposition on crusade to taint everything as corrupt - President Ramotar - denounces attack on Housing Ministry’s staff
Georgetown, GINA, July 6, 2012 -- Source - GINA
President Donald Ramotar, flanked by Minster of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran and Minister of Housing and Water Irfaan Ali, shares a light moment with invitees at the opening of Building Expo2012 at the Guyana National Stadium
President Donald Ramotar this evening, at the opening of the Third annual International Building Exposition denounced the attack by the opposition on the Housing Ministry’s staff and accused them of being on a ‘crusade’ to taint everything that the government does as corrupt.
He noted that the successes of this Administration have been attracting envy and jealousy.
“It has been brought to my attention since I came back from the Caricom Heads of Government meeting that there was a vicious attack against the Ministry of Housing workers who are trying their best, who are doing all that they can to satisfy the needs and the demands of the population out there,” the Head of State said.
“There seems to be a mentality created to try to criticize projects that can transform our country and bring better standards of living for our people and to do that there seems to be a crusade, a direct attack and a crusade to taint everything with corruption to say everything is corrupt, the same way the attacked when we were building the stadium, they attacked when we were building the Berbice bridge,” The Head of State explained.
President Donald Ramotar delivering the feature address at the Third Annual International Building Exposition
He said that this recent attack on the housing ministry’s workers, who work long days and hours, is an abuse by the opposition political elements, as their labour is being disregarded.
“In the same callous way that we heard when they cut our budget of some $21B…when they were told that some 250 jobs are being threatened one comment was collateral damage… How can we speak about our own working people as collateral damage? How can we not understand that poor people, ordinary people need to have an income?” the Head of State asked.
He said it is because of the opposition’s callousness they choose to describe the workers as collateral damage. This type of attitude he believes shows a level of ingratitude to attack the workers at the Ministry of Housing despite the valiant effort they have been making to satisfy the housing need in this country.
President Donald Ramotar examines a model home built by Buddy’s Housing, during a walk about of Building Expo 2012
President Donald Ramotar believes that the vicious attack against the Housing Ministry is now being seen because the opposition does not want to see progress being made in the society.
“Because of jealousy and because they believe that if things get bad it would be better for them politically and, we cannot live with such negative feeling around us, we must be determined to push ahead because this sector – the construction sector has become a very important sector in our economy,” the Head of State said.
Recently, it was reported in some sections of the media that the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has accused the Administration of mismanaging the distribution of house lots following a ‘One Stop Shop’ at the Guyana National Stadium, and called for an independent enquiry into the process.
