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Let's don't forget that he was "selected" and "not elected".
President accuses speakers at Guyana-New York rally of race-baiting and lying about situation in Guyana
August 16 ,2021
In a statement issued by the Presidentâs office this afternoon, President Ali described the protest as "deceitful and dishonest", adding that it was filled with lies, hate, and race-baiting.
A Guyana anti-racism protest held in New York over the weekend which featured some top US congress representatives and APNU+AFC national and regional representatives has irked the Guyana Government with President Irfaan Ali today rejecting the statements made at the rally about racism in Guyana and his government.
In a statement issued by the Presidentâs office this afternoon, President Ali described the protest as âdeceitful and dishonestâ, adding that it was filled with lies, hate, and race-baiting.
According to the President, nothing said at the rally will distract him from his work.
âI think that it is very deceitful, dishonorable and obstructionist that people would go to the extent that they went in telling lies; that the grant, the COVID grant, was not given to all the villages and all the people, that thereâs discrimination in the education grant thatâs been shared out.â The President was quoted as saying.
The President stopped short of naming Congressman Hakeem Jeffries who raised his own concerns about the situation in Guyana at the rally, but said he was surprised by the statements made.
âIt is very concerning that you have persons who profess to have credibility enveloped in that type of behaviour, calling on timeâs up for the Government, timeâs up for an AmbassadorâĶ well then it has to be timeâs up for CARICOM, timeâs for the OAS, timeâs up for the EU, timeâs up for all the countries and all international bodies, the Carter Center, that supported the efforts to have a democratic environment here in Guyana and defeated the efforts of those who tried to rig an election and install themselves undemocratically in the countryâ, the President said.
The Presidentâs statement today comes on the heels of a late Sunday night statement by the Prime Minister who also rejected the statements made at the rally which brought together thousands of Guyanese in the Brooklyn, New York area.
Irfaan Ali is shaping up to be a good president of the time in Guyana. He needs more time under his belt to get the country under control. He is as weak on crime as other presidents do but I believe he is working on a strategy with the GPF.