Georgetown : A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) claims that Clement Rohee, Minister of Home Affairs refused to address the critical issues of crime, and lack of public confidence in the security sector. Instead Rohee engaged in a tirade that had no relevance to the sector. The Minister was at the time delivering his speech on Budget 2014 last evening. The opposition partnership sasy Minister Rohee speech was short on policy and administrative projections and long on hyperbole and political slander. Rohee failed to address any plans to fight rampant gun-running, narco-trafficking, trafficking- in- persons, violent crime and the public’s lack of confidence in the Peoples Progressive Party-Civic administration to keep them safe. There was no plan articulated for the reform and re-training of the Guyana Police Force.
“Rohee remarks in the National Assembly prove that the Peoples Progressive Party- Civic has failed most seriously to address the Country’s most pressing problems- the public security crisis. The party has not accepted responsibility for the high rate of armed robberies, murderous maritime piracy, rampant gun-running, trafficking in persons, contraband smuggling, and drug trafficking and other violent and white collar crime. “ APNU therefore views the remarks by the General Secretary of the PPP as scandalous and irresponsible and a tactic by the PPP to run-away from its dismal record in the areas of law enforcement and public safety.
