Georgetown : Joint opposition party A Partnership of National Unity (APNU) this morning says after twelve years as President of Guyana, Mr. Bharatt Jagdeo is about to demit office as the worst president in the history of Guyana. He leaves behind a legacy of shame that will take many years and several billion of dollars to erase.
The party statement says “the Jagdeo Presidency brought us the “phantom squads” and the troubles that plagued our nation for several years; over 400 citizens lost their lives under strange and inexplicable circumstances. Extra-judicial killings, trafficking in arms and in persons became the new phenomena.The state has become criminalised. The growth of gangs has increased among the rural poor and urban underclass. The murder rate in Guyana is three times that of the USA.
It was under President Jagdeo’s watch that Guyana earned the dubious and shameful label of a Narco-state. The legacy of shame touched all strata of society: a Government Minister was assassinated and his death was never fully investigated; mismanagement and theft of public funds; substandard public works projects; a corrupt bidding and procurement process; the CLICO debacle; NIS fraud; the Supenaam stelling collapse; failure to submit audited financial statements on the World Cup and Carifesta; the illegal misuse and abuse of the Lotto funds; deception of the religious community over the Casino; money laundering; dubious and questionable arrangements for OLFP; unfettered and now endemic corruption; decline in rice, sugar and bauxite production; nepotism; cronyism; and triumphalism”.
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