MINISTER of Social Cohesion Amna Ally has taken People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) General Secretary Clement Rohee to task for asserting that her ministry’s role is “…to promote racial and political discrimination in favour of APNU + AFC.”
Ally in a statement said as Minister of the Social Cohesion Ministry and a long-standing personality on Guyana’s political landscape, she will not allow Mr Rohee’s jaundiced interpretation of the role of her ministry to go unchallenged.
She contended that there are deliberate efforts by the government to encourage citizens to cooperate with each other in order to survive and prosper as Guyanese.
On that note, the minister said Mr Rohee’s pronouncements are flawed, mischievous and designed to foster the converse to what the Ministry of Social Cohesion is designed to negate.
Rohee had also said that the PPP would “ensure that the so-called Ministry of Social Cohesion does not succeed in divisive manipulative, deceitful and bribe- sharing efforts to divide Guyanese socially, politically along religious lines, ostensibly for electoral purposes.”
But Minister Ally said the PPP General Secretary has to be delusional. She posited that the PPP continues to conduct itself with “arrant infidelity to its constituents and the Guyanese public at large.”
“What he is accusing the ministry of is what he is guilty of and this has led to the defeat of his party. The people of Guyana, those in the Region and international community would have none of it.
“The evidence of division and its potential to destroy Guyana as a nation are factors which have driven the administration to put mechanisms in place at an institutional level, to respond to further threats of divisiveness. We have seen what division, marginalisation and polarisation can do and we, therefore, raise a standard against them. Guyana is for all Guyanese and this government should be commended for an initiative aimed at mainstreaming social cohesion. The previous administration saw nothing to gain from fostering cohesion and it was for that reason every counter attack to cohesion was nurtured and perpetrated. Unfortunately, Mr Rohee is still seeking to do the same thing,” Ally said.
