PNCR deplores ‘deliberate damage’ to local democratic system

Sep 10, 2012 News

Opposition Leader David Granger has told his party’s members in Region Two that the PPP/C was on a campaign to starve certain municipalities of the resources they needed and to neutralise local government entities.
Granger made the observation over the weekend during a visit to the region, where he reminded his comrades of the adage that “all politics is local,” and called on PNCR members to remain organised and mobilised.
He advised them to aim at securing sufficient grass-roots support in forthcoming municipal and local elections to ensure that they could control the councils and that their concerns would be addressed.
According to Granger, the PPP/C in its quest to neutralise Local Government entities, was discrediting existing councilors with bogus ‘investigations,’ inventing pretexts to remove the remaining elected officials and to replace them with PPP/C placemen.
The PNCR/APNU Leader told Party members the entire system of local democracy was being deliberately damaged by the current actions of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration.
Speaking at Anna Regina in the Pomeroon-Supenaam Region, Granger alluded to the fact that Ganga Persaud, Minister of Local Government and Regional Development, had been systematically dismantling Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.
Persaud, he said, was busily installing unrepresentative, hand-picked, PPP/C Interim management committees against the wishes of local residents.
The recent move by the administration has led to a showdown with residents of the Kwakwani district, who have since held a controversial election to install their own to run the affairs of their community.
According to Granger, the PNCR was a Guyanese national Party. It is not an Amerindian Party, an African Party or an Indian Party.
He said that the party is working towards establishing a true government of national unity which, he said, must be reflected at the municipal and local levels.
The PNCR leader said that the Party believed in “inclusionary democracy.”
This also involved improving citizens’ access to public services – such as education, health, housing and social services – and intensifying the Party’s relationship with labour and civil society.
Brigadier Granger, earlier in his visit, interacted with vendors during a ‘walkabout’ in the Supenaam Market.
The PNCR leader was accompanied by Regional Chairman Mr. Joseph Hill, Regional Secretary Ms. Doreen Duncan and other officials.

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