Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon yesterday accused the government of seeking to punish the residents of Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) by not cooperating to have the Regional Democratic Council sworn in.
Speaking at his first press conference for 2021, Harmon said, “The RDC cannot be installed because [the] PPP has been trying to control this region [Region Eight] because they cannot assure themselves of the chairmanship of it.”
He said that since August the PPP/C has been in office and yet the RDC members cannot be sworn in. “They are punishing the people of that region by refusing to install the RDC and the officers. Because the PPP cannot have its way, the people of Region Eight must suffer. This is the nature of the PPP we having to deal with,” Harmon said during the virtual presser.
