APNU+AFC General Secretary, Joseph Harmon, is challenging the government’s decision to terminate his contract as Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency but Attorney-General Anil Nandlall says his expectations are woefully misplaced.

The post of director-general was specially created for Harmon after he was forced to resign as minister of state and a parliamentarian due to his dual citizenship status.

Harmon, a recently-inducted member of the PNC/R Central Executive Committee, was, on Thursday, informed by the PPP/C government that his services are no longer required.

In a letter from Attorney General Anil Nandlall, Harmon was informed that: “…having regard to the nature of the job, which you were engaged to execute, and did in fact execute, it is no longer possible or practical for you to perform those tasks under the new government.”

Harmon was reminded that he was relieved of his job as director-general of the Ministry of the Presidency sometime in April 2020 when he was appointed chief executive officer of the Coalition’s Covid-19 Task Force.

As such, this made his removal consensual and the termination of his contract mutual.

But, Harmon responded to Nandlall’s letter, indicating that he does not recognise his authority and will further pursue the new government’s attempt to deny him of his contractual benefits.

Nandlall, in response, pointed out that “that you, the general-secretary of the APNU, chose to describe the current government as fraudulent… is axiomatic evidence of the existence of the condition to which I have made reference above.”

Nandlall further outlined that “as regard your complaint of the denial of contractual benefits sagacious counsel, once solicited, will hopefully persuade you that contractual benefits only devolve upon breach of a subsisting, valid, and enforceable contract. In your case… there is no longer such a contract. In consequence, your expectation is woefully misplaced.”