Georgetown: People’s Progressive Party parliamentarian, Harry Gill was on Wednesday physically attacked and assaulted by former A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Region 5 Councillor, Carol Joseph during his visit to a Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) location in Region Five where a delegation of persons escorted a container with Local Government Elections (LGE) materials.
In a recording circulated on social media, Gill was seen videoing the process when Joseph who began to be verbally abusive towards Gill decided to approach him with a chain wrapped in her hand shoving him and almost hitting the phone he was using to make the video out of his hand.
During the process the parliamentarian receive a two inch scratch on his hand. The former Region Five council continued her verbal abuse and Gill later made a report at the Fort Wellington Police Station.
Reports indicate that Ms Joseph has a Pethidine addiction and while as a senior APNU/AFC member on the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) in Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) she used her influence to gain access to the morphine like medication.
In an investigation Member of Parliament Harry Gill exposed the abuse where Joseph forced nurses on duty on several occasions when she showed up at the hospital for a pethidine fix. In the course of the investigation a nurse was also transferred from the hospital for refusing Ms. Joseph request for high doses of the opium like drug.
The nurse was transferred from the Fort Wellington Hospital to a health centre
in Bath Settlement, a transfer she objects to.
The nurse later related to the media that she was punished for doing the right thing. Carol Joseph was forced to subsequently resign as a Councillor as a result of the investigation into her drug addiction.
Police confirmed that Mr. Gill made a report to the station as investigations continue.
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