Granger calls on Ramotar to stop transfer of NDC overseers

Opposition Leader David Granger yesterday called on President Donald Ramotar to halt the People’s Progressive Party/Civic administration’s plan to re-deploy overseers of several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDC).

A statement from the office of the Opposition Leader said Granger wrote to Ramotar pointing out that A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) and members of several Neighbourhood Democratic Councils are “deeply concerned about the arbitrary transfer of their duly appointed overseers to areas outside of the jurisdiction of their NDC by the Minister of Local Government or his officials, without any consultation with them.”

Granger said the result of the minister’s action is that confusion has been created among councils, the communities they represent and the political partners of APNU, particularly the