The ruling People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has again accused presidential candidate of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), David Granger, of being one of the chief enforcers of the Forbes Burnham dictatorship.
The party’s statement comes in wake of the PNCR complaining to the Organisation of American States (OAS) concerning comments by President Bharrat Jagdeo about Granger during his address at a Babu John ceremony to honour the late President Cheddi Jagan on Sunday.
The PPPC said in a release on Thursday that it has noted the PNCR’s attempt to distance Granger from “his role as one of the chief enforcers of its party paramountcy ideology during his rule of the army in the 1970’s. Granger is now pretending to be innocent to his participation in the loss of lives in the Berbice martyrs and rigged elections in Guyana during the PNC regime.”
The party added that it is ‘blatant dishonesty’ for Granger and the PNCR to now deny ‘his involvement’ in the well-documented despicable acts, which stripped Guyanese of their dignity.
The party charged that the PNCR was trying to present Granger as a ‘Sunday school boy’ knowing fully-well that, by his own admission of holding a 40-year membership in the PNC, he loyally carried out the biddings of the PNC administration.
“Granger’s entire career in the army was full with professional misconduct as an accomplice to numerous oppressive and retrogressive policies during the dictatorial rule of the PNC.
The PPP is convinced that no amount of window-dressing could cloud the reality of Granger’s tainted character as the undertaker of the PNC’s biddings, still recorded as Guyana’s most brutal dictatorial regime, which survived on the rigging of elections, intimidation and the muzzling of the press,” the PPP said.
The party added that Granger is a “bad role model to our young generation, as he was part and parcel of the PNCR scheme to destroy the institutional integrity of our state. He should stop hiding behind Corbin and answer for his contribution to the atrocities of the PNCR regime.”
On Wednesday, Deputy Secretary General of the OAS, Albert Ramdin, paid a courtesy call on the Leader of the PNCR, Robert Corbin, at his Sophia office. Accompanying Corbin were Granger and the party’s general secretary, Oscar Clarke.
During the meeting Corbin briefed the OAS official on Jagdeo’s statements at Babu John, which he described as ‘malicious’.
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