APNU says President blames Guyanese for his failure to deal with drug lords.

 

Georgetown : In what could only be described as his usual inexplicable display of insensitivity and arrogance, President Bharrat Jagdeo, at a Press Conference, on Tuesday 4^th October 2011, blamed the Guyanese people for the state of public insecurity and unease during his 12-year Presidency of Guyana.

 

President Jagdeo contended that the lack of evidence was responsible for the inability of his Administration to capture major drug traffickers such as Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan. The President also stated that it was the reason his Administration was unable to investigate the crimes that Shaheed ‘Roger’ Khan committed while living in Guyana and for which he was convicted by a court in the USA. 

 

Opposition group A Partnership For National Unity ( APNU)  claims, this is not the first time that the President has made this claim, suggesting that he truly wishes to  convince  Guyanese that  it was the lack of evidence which was responsible for the unrestrained illegal activities in Guyana. Proffering that Guyanese are reluctant to come forward with evidence against powerful and ruthless criminals, President Jagdeo, in effect, told Guyanese people that it was their fault, and not his lack of will and commitment, coupled with the incompetence of his Administration, that resulted in the mishandling of public security in the country, which allowed unhindered crime and criminality to prevail in Guyana. The country has, as a consequence, become an unsafe place. 

 

APNU says, the President needs to explain why it is that his Administration’s own National Drug Strategy Master Plan was not fully and vigorously implemented, while CANU and the Police Counter-Narcotics Section have been consistently underfunded.