Jagdeo says justified in distribution of broadcast licences

Former president Bharrat Jagdeo said he is justified in the decisions he made in the granting of broadcast licences, especially the radio licence he gave to his own party, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).

“They talk about the friends and family thing, the broadcast legislation. Every time I opened the papers I see Jagdeo gave his friends and family this stuff… you hear every single day, friends and family, and of course the PPP got a licence and I don’t mind that one,” he told a forum his party held at the Sleepin Hotel on corruption, last week.

Further, he added “I am a politician, so they can