Dear Editor,

PLEASE allow me to again voice my concerns as to the way the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is doing things in Region 5, especially the Regional Chairman, who is now becoming very disrespectful to the Clerk and Councillors of the RDC every day that he sits as the political head of the region.As I was watching and listening to an LRTVS newscast recently, it shocked me to see the Regional Chairman and his PPP councillors in a meeting at the RDC Boardroom. As I further listened, I heard the chairman saying he was glad the meeting was the first successful one for the RDC, and he was surprised that the APNU+AFC councillors were not present. He went on to say that he invited the councillors and the clerk to the meeting the said morning.

I don’t know who is coaching this ‘youth man’, because the statutory meeting of the council is set for every third Thursday of the month, starting at 10am, and not the fourth Thursday of the month. He needs to read his first minutes when he took that oath to be truthful and serve the people as chairman. He seems to be in Wonderland, and he keeps lying to his PPP supporters for some form of gain.

After immediate consultations with the APNU+AFC Councillors in the region, I will like to clearly state, on behalf of the councillors, that we were never invited to any meeting that was held on Thursday 23, June 2016, and we condemn this act of hijacking the meeting and telling lies by the chairman.

We would also like to state that that statutory meeting was a PPP meeting; therefore, the council will not allow this to further happen. We are also calling on the reginal chairman to further apologise to the council for his gross lies and deception of the public in saying that this meeting was called by the council. We, as councillors of Region Five and part of the government of that region, will not sit back and allow the chairman to further disrespect the council, especially lying on councillors and the Clerk, who is the REO.

What I observed during the newscast is that there was no clerk present at the meeting. The only person present was a police officer attached to the Fort Wellington Police Station. I want to assure the people of Region Five that we in the APNU+AFC will continue to represent them, no matter what lies and deception are coming from the regional chairman.
Regards,
ABEL SEETARAM
APNU+AFC Regional Councillor
Region 5