Businessman Robert Badal this afternoon endorsed the Alliance For Change (AFC) to lead the next government, calling it the “most credible” option to take the country forward.
“Today we have not only a clear choice but a responsibility to ourselves and to each other to support a change in government,” Badal told an AFC news conference. “I am a businessman not a politician, but as a businessman and a citizen of this country it is my duty to say something is wrong when it is wrong, free of any fear of intimidation or victimisation,” he added.
According to Badal, an AFC-government led by Khemraj Ramjattan, Moses Nagamootoo and a dynamic team of young professionals would “restore decency and integrity to government, ensure transparency and accountability to Guyanese, and halt the accelerating web of corruption.”
He noted that all over the world people are removing abusive, corrupt and repressive governments, and pointed out that after 19 years of “divisive and destructive politics under the PPP/C,” there is little to show for the billions of dollars spent and the huge sacrifices made by every Guyanese. “Physical infrastructure of roads and drainage in the city and around the country remain poor. Criminal activity, including daily robberies and murders go unchecked with no solution in sight. Corruption has become the culture in public office, evidenced by the unexplained wealth of those in power. All institutions of the state designed to ensure public accountability have been deliberately marginalised and [are] non-functional,” he said.
Badal blamed the state of affairs on the poor choices made by the PPP/C, particularly over the last 12 years—the tenure of outgoing president Bharrat Jagdeo.
