Opposition will not have way with security -Rohee

Opposition will not have way with security  -Rohee

In a terse letter to the press, a combative Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee fired off at the parliamentary opposition parties for voting down the security bills he presented in the National Assembly.

In the  letter, Rohee said the more opposition members open their mouths, the more he is convinced that Guyana would be a lost paradise if they were to regain power. He said whether he holds the portfolio or not, the opposition will have to await a change in the government before they get their way with the security sector.

“The more PNC MPs open their loud mouths, the more I am convinced that Guyana will become a “paradise lost” if they are ever to regain the seat of power. We only have to cast our minds back to the 1964 to 1991 period to assess their track record in government. Will Granger and his acolytes do better?”, Rohee asked.

The Opposition parties in parliament, A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change have both indicated that they do not intend to support any legislation presented to the National Assembly by the Home Affairs Minister as long as Clement Rohee remains in that position. The Opposition used their majority in the National Assembly last year to pass a no confidence motion in the Minister of Home Affairs. The President indicated that he was not going to remove Rohee from the position and Rohee himself made it clear that he would not be resigning.

The Home Affairs Minister said from all appearances, the opposition is making it out as if they are the only ones who could effectively deal with security matters in Guyana.

“As far as Granger and his merry band are concerned, only under the PNC will the security sector improve. They have all the answers! They know it all!Regrettably, there is no one in the PPP/C who supports either the APNU or the AFC. So Rohee or no Rohee both the AFC and APNU will have to await a change in government to get their way in the security sector”, the Minister said in his letter to the press.

The Minister said the Opposition parties especially the Peoples National Congress which makes up the biggest part of the APNU needs to tell the nation of its plans for the security sector rather than to be “bad mouthing” him. He said “With all their loud mouth and bad mouthing, the PNC has never told the nation what its vision for the security sector is.  But the question is, do they have one?”

The opposition parties have been pressing for Rohee to be removed from the Home Affairs Ministry saying that he has failed in the years that he has held that position to carry out programmes that could bring about real change in the security sector. The crime situation they believe, and the police force’s inability to tackle many of the criminal problems is as a result of bad policies being put in place.

Just last week, Opposition member of Parliament Deborah Backer described the Minister as a “nuts and bolts” man who has no proper plan for the security sector. Rohee in his letter said while Backer may have some good ideas about the security sector, “when it comes to the bolts and nuts of getting something done, she is no good”.

 

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