HOW much hypocrisy can the few members and supporters of the Alliance For Change (AFC) continue to bear, suppress or live in complete denial?

The AFC Leadership made it clear before the 2014 Conference that the nominations for the AFC’s Presidential and Prime Ministerial candidates are not on the agenda and will be done at a Special Conference prior to elections. However, the AFC Leader did in fact once again endorse Mr Moses Nagamootoo and Mr Nigel Hughes as the presidential and prime ministerial candidates respectively.

The AFC Leadership once again disregarded its own Constitution when no nomination was allowed for the posts of Chairman, Vice-Chairman and General Secretary! This is in direct contravention of Article 7 Section 4 (c) which emphatically stated that, “The business of the national Conference shall be to ELECT the Leader, Chairman, the Vice-Chairman, the General Secretary and the twelve Committee members of the National Executive”.

The AFC is vociferous in calling the prorogation of Parliament by the President an ‘unconstitutional act’ yet they are disregarding their own Constitution on a regular basis. Can these people be trusted to run this country? This is AFC’s democracy in action!

At the 2012 Conference they did a similar selection when no nominations were allowed for Leader and Chairman and the elections were rigged in favour of Nagamootoo and Patterson. This year they have gone further – there is no reason to vote anymore as the current leaders are there for life! So Burnhamish!

Furthermore, in 2012, the AFC presented an inaccurate and unaudited financial statement which again was in direct contravention of Article 15 Section 9 which spoke of the appointment of an auditor on an annual basis and Article 7 Section 4(b) says that, “The business of the National Conference shall be to receive the Report of the Treasurer”. If these are read together then it means that an audited financial statement should have been presented at that Conference since each year the financial year ends on February 28th (Article 15 Section 10). However, at this year’s Conference the AFC went further by not presenting any financial statements whatsoever!

They have moved from an inaccurate and unaudited one to none at all! Yet once again the AFC Leadership is singing about accountability and the need to wipe out corruption. Once again I will reiterate that the AFC is the most corrupted political party this country has ever seen.

Unfortunately, the worse is yet to come from the AFC. I had made many revelations to AFC’s Leader Khemraj Ramjattan in my e-mails to him but corruption runs deep within the AFC and all are consumed.

I attempted to change that but I was expelled. Now there is no one in the AFC who is willing to stem the downward slide. The recent Rally at Whim speaks volumes when ‘a crowd’ was actually ‘rented’ from among APNU supporters from Lancaster, Liverpool, Lancaster and Liverpool. The AFC leaders cannot fool everyone. In addition, the poor turnout at the National Conference is another indicator- delegates had to be ‘bussed’ to get an attendance! The end is near!
HASEEF YUSUF
AFC Councillor – Region 6