With just weeks to go before the elections, President Bharrat Jagdeo’s decision to release for export 132 scrap metal containers, which were held up earlier in the year, amounts to “rank opportunism,” says AFC presidential candidate Khemraj Ramjattan.
According to Ramjattan, it is “quite amusing” that with elections looming, Jagdeo has now decided to heed its advice given four months ago to release the containers. “This is tantamount to rank political opportunism with total disregard for the intelligence of the Guyanese people,” he was quoted as saying in a party press release.
The AFC also recalled that on July 8, it had picketed the Office of the Prime Minister to register its disapproval and grave concern about government’s ill-advised handling of the
