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Dec 15, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
There are only a few qualifications required for destructive elements to attempt to tarnish the good work of the Bartica Town Council. I have found that a self appointed PRO seems to have been endowed with quite a portion of all three of the above mentioned qualifications.
I don’t make this claim idly but I cite as evidence his two previous letters to media houses. Because I am quite busy doing the council’s work, I cannot invest much time to respond as aptly to each inaccurate letter.
But for the sake of the people, who are entitled to truth, accuracy and enough information to suitably form opinions, I take these few words to respond.Immediately I must address his direct accusation of pomposity on my account and that of His Worship the Mayor.
Whatever is his intention, I encourage him to tread lightly until it can be verified as publicly as all his other unsupported accusations. Secondly, I beg for consideration on the part of the council taking the decision to have Mr. Royden removed.
Specifically, I ask reasonable citizens to imagine that over the terms of the previous administration’s IMC, Mr. Royden inhabited a ‘shanty-town’ shack in the compound that housed the NDC. To be fair he is indeed still an employee, but any citizen brave enough to say it would acknowledge his additional night time duties.
Many would also verify that visits to the NDC in morning hours found him up close and personal with questionably types of all kinds. The Bartica Mayor and Councillors, if guilty of anything in this case, would be guilty of dreaming of having a compound reflective of the nature of the business involved in running a town.
One that was not synonymous with small bags of white rocks, missing batteries or tractor parts, and most disturbingly a house for “good times” and “get highs”.
To those reasonable citizens I also ask; why was this not a priority for those gone before? One might assume that as misery loves company…. so too does white collar crimes give place to crimes of the more recognizable kind.Late in October, Mr. PRO of all things done incompetently by the Council, pressed in on his ‘qualifications’ again.
He penned a lengthy letter to the usual theme of …the council didn’t do this but we did that.” While I can’t exactly afford the time to use all the facts to counter all of his stretched details, I must zone in on the most glaringly hilarious claim. It was quite a wave to hear him rant about the 48 stalls at Mongrippa installed by the previous administration’s IMC.
In his recollection of this act, he equated it to that of the discovery of minced beef. What he failed however to highlight was that the sole purpose of the 48 stalls was to fortify those officers of that IMC. Am I just making this up?
Maybe, but Bartica is a small town so I implore any one with doubt to query the names of stall holders of that arcade, and I’m sure that when that bell sounds many names would be familiar enough. Further, I hope someone out there queries the laws concerning officials holding stalls, moreover subletting said stalls and finally, possibly more importantly, stalls that remain indebted to this Council even as I write this letter.
Dear Mr. Editor, general public and more specifically residents of Bartica, our town council remains committed to advancing Bartica. We cannot afford our mission to be distracted by the chatters of idle propaganda sharers.
Although I cannot spend much longer as I have tons of work to do, I hope that the clarification this letter provides, urges you to think deeper when the seemingly verse penmanship of the likes of Mr. PRO again finds way to the newspapers.
Phebe Wallerson
Town Clerk- Bartica
Town Council
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