(Eyewitness)The war drumbeats from Linden are beginning once again. Or more properly, the drumbeats never really ended …just their intensity decreased. The complaints are putatively about the committees that were to be formed after the Linden protests in July 2012. But this is the occasion for the war and not the cause of the war.
Take the Economic Development Committee. This was supposed to be constituted and have its report for the development of Region 10 WITHIN 90 DAYS!! We’re talking about by last November. Yet a year and a half later, the committee chairperson – selected by the opposition and the Region 10 administration (is this a redundancy?) just resigned. And get this – for personal reasons and with no report. Now mind you, when the chairperson took on the job last March, she’d demanded six months and we don’t have a report after 10 months.
And the government’s getting the blame!!! Why? Well, the region won’t agree on a chair of the technical committee – to look into the electricity rates that brought on the whole shebang. You can have economic development without a cost for electricity?
So you tell us who’s dragging their feet?