MY attention was yesterday drawn to an election poster on the APNU+AFC Facebook page in which the following is stated: “Desmond Hoyte jailed Rabbi Washington and Errol “Taps” Butcher for crimes committed. When the PPP/C gained power, they set them free!” 

The contention that Errol “Taps” Butcher was somehow freed by the PPP after being imprisoned by Hoyte was first made by disgruntled ex-PPP member, now turned David Granger cheerleader, Malcolm Harripaul. The truth is that my father was freed after winning his case on appeal. Myself and Senior Counsel Bernard De Santos who successfully challenged the earlier conviction pointed out this inaccuracy on separate instances. Unfortunately my dad, who served the PNC(now APNU+AFC) “so well”along with Rabbi Washington and the House of Israel, is once again fodder in the APNU+AFC’s quest to obtain the votes of Indo-Guyanese.
The insinuation here is that after Hoyte would’ve done the right thing by jailing these two “monsters”, the PPP upon ascension to office released them.
The truth, though, is that my father continued to “serve” the PNC even after being jailed by Hoyte. He provided an enormous amount of “service” during Hoyte’s “Mo Fyah, Slow Fyah” campaign in 1997. I recall listening in on a telephone conversation in which Hoyte’s “creature”was being instructed which and which businesses were not to be targeted. In fact, my father served the PNC so well that during the 1997 elections a command centre was set up at one of his properties and was run by a female of “Bourne” identity. From this centre persons were mobilised and transported to various locations to participate in multiple voting.
When the 2001 elections came around being overseas denied him the opportunity to “serve” once again. His services were so important to the PNC’s cause that numerous efforts were made to have him come home. He died a year later and up until his death remained in service to the PNC(now APNU+AFC) despite being “jailed by Hoyte” and “freed by the PPP,” as its Facebook page now asserts.

JASON ABDULLA