A SENIOR member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) has threatened to incite violence in Guyana by waging war on the Guyana Police Force (GPF) and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF).

The member was at the time speaking during a public meeting at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, on Sunday.

“A time is going to come in this country, very soon, when we will test our brothers and sisters…They will have to make up their minds whether they live with us or whether they live with the PPP (People’s Progressive Party). And they can shoot us down and we will shoot them back,” he said.

The WPA member had a strong message to the servicemen and women, which was aimed at creating public discord in Guyana and among Guyanese.

“We want them to be crystally clear and if the police and the army allow themselves to be used to slaughter African people, we will wage a war against them,” he said, as he urged his supporters to “spread the message.”
Previously, President, Dr Irfaan Ali had called out the opposition for the use of propaganda of race and division.
“Your political narrative of using race as your mobilising tool has come to an end! Game over!” President Ali had said, adding: “We are going to destroy it, and bury it in the ground. As President, I am going to work in every single community.”

The President called on Guyanese to recognise that his government is intent on embracing every citizen on development.

“Many persons who are seeing and working with us on this massive agenda in these very communities are being ridiculed,” the Head of State said, urging those persons to remain committed to their community’s development.
Recently, the Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, S.C., called out the People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (PNC/R-APNU) party for using the ‘race card’ to mislead its supporters into hindering development in Guyana.

The Attorney-General said that such behaviours from political leaders must not be condoned when they attempt to convert these issues into political and ethnic ones by manufacturing scandals.

Mayor Ubraj Narine, of the People’s National Congress (PNC) and Alliance For Change (AFC) Member of Parliament Sherod Duncan are currently before the court for allegedly attempting to incite racial and ethnic disunity in Guyana.

United States-based Guyanese and Opposition-aligned Rickford Burke is wanted in Guyana for the incitement of hostility or ill-will on the grounds of race in violation of the Racial Hostility Act, sedition, and use of a computer system to intimidate in violation of the Cyber Crime Act, seditious libel, inciting a breach of the peace, and inciting public terror.