Call for constitutional change a slap in the face of Guyanese – Rohee

A call for constitutional change is a “slap in the face of Guyanese” because they were the ones who agreed on the present Constitution, General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Clement Rohee said on Monday at a press conference at the party’s headquarters.

He stated that the party has taken note of recent public statements that the Constitution is “backward”, which were “indeed a slap in the faces of Guyanese and all their representatives…” who spent countless hours drafting an acceptable constitution.

Rohee stated that unlike the 1980 “Burnham Constitution,” which he described as an imposition by the then