Rohee accuses media of political agenda on crime
CASH transactions are the biggest motivator of gun crimes in Guyana, presently, Minister of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee said Wednesday.
He said, recently, the police have been aggressive in addressing the issue in which groups of men and some women involved are engaged in networking and committing those crimes. “I believe that much success was achieved and, unfortunately, the success stories are not printed but the bad news is printed to embarrass the police, the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Government,” Rohee posited.
He said there are many people who have been granted bail by the courts and have gone back to recommit crimes since.
Rohee acknowledged that crime remains a major challenge but some sections of the media are supportive of this.
He declared: “It is an agenda. If you collect the articles and recordings of the footage, you will see 80 per cent of the stories carried are biased against the law enforcement agencies, portraying them as useless, inept, don’t know what they are doing and not on top of the situation.
“I disagree with that but I don’t want the media to be incubating with the police. I don’t expect that with the police but I expect some objective reporting.”
Rohee maintained that the stories carried by the media are to lambaste the law enforcement agencies and put them in a bad light and it will continue in the run-up to elections.
He said it is not only an agenda but an electoral agenda, to keep fuelling the perception that the law enforcement agencies are not on top of the crime fight and those involved are useless.
The minister said: “I do not accept this because I know the efforts the police are exhorting because of the successes of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) in the past few weeks, which should be written about in news articles.”