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Reply to "GDF Chief of Staff Assures Soldiers of Right to Vote Freely-Jagdeo say Vote PPP."

COMMENTS..+3 #7 F. A. Stephenson 2011-11-14 21:17

Bharrat Jagdeo, Commander in Chief of the Guyana Defence Force, by openly calling on members of the Guyana Defence Force to vote for his party has crossd the line here, and in so doing he has compromised both his integrity and that of of the members of the force, although some may argue as to whether his excellency possesses any integrity.
He alleges that Granger "does not believe in the constitution" and that he "does not believe in the defence act"; and he urged members to "examine him on his record".
Small wonder that unnamed senior military sources have observed that "this is an unprecedented statement".
I choose to believe that Bharrat Jagdeo may not be aware of it, but by making this request of the military he has shown himself to an unscrupulous and unprincipled political hack willing to sacrifice the integrity and professionalism the nation's military on the altar of rank political expediency.
Further, he asks the military to "examine him (Granger) on his record",
apparently woefully ignorant of the fact that absent formal charge/s against Granger for criminal or civil acts, Granger's records are off limits.
Finally, Granger was Commander of the GDF from 1979 to 1990, and in that capacity he had full access to significant intelligence data on the PPP and certain of its members, and were he cut from the same cloth as Jagdeo, some of this data could have been leaked with considerable advantage to the press.
Jagdeo should know that it is because Granger believes in the constitution and the defence act; and that it is because he is someone of impeccable integrity that certain guyanese known to Mr Jagdeo are free to walk the streets of Guyana.
Tola
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