APNU PRESS RELEASE March 21, 2012 DR.

. CHEDDI JAGAN WOULD NOT HAVE TOLERATED THE RAPE AND PLUNDER OF THE STATE TREASURY APNU has read the Stabroek News report (03-2112) of President Ramotars address to the annual Cheddi Jagan lecture that was held at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre at Red House Kingston Georgetown on 03-20-12. President Ramotar told his audience that Dr. Jagan would not have liked what was happening in parliament as regards the composition of the Select Committee in which the governing PPP has a minority status. He also stated that it was a reversal of what Dr. Jagan struggled for. APNU wishes to inform the public that Dr. Jagan would certainly not have tolerated the rampant corruption, nepotism, and rape and plunder of the State Treasury that the PPP government has engaged in the past 20 years. Dr. Jagan would not have tolerated the abuse of power by the PPP leaders who were implicated in all sorts of crimes such as rape of underaged girls, rape of school boys, vehicular manslaughter, pistol whipping people, drunken rum shop brawls, sex for house lots, sex for the return of cell phone, the sale of gun licences, and the sale of work permits. Dr. Jagan would not have permitted the gifting away of state properties and lands to his cronies and sychophants. He would not have allowed GUYSUCO to deteriorate to the point of bankruptcy and returning to slavery methodology to force sugar workers to produce. Dr. Jagan would not have allowed the narco trade to flourish. He would not have employed narco death squads. He would not have befriended the drug traffickers. APNU wishes to inform the public that in 1992 the PPP had won the Presidency but not a working majority in Parliament. However, the WPA made an

arrangement with the PPP in Region 8 that gave the PPP the one seat it needed to gain a parliamentary majority. Since then the PPP had turned the parliament into a rubber stamp and it bulldozed opposition concerns since 1997. Guyana descended into parliamentary dictatorship under the PPP regime. The Guyanese people ended such dictatorship on 28th Nov 2011 when the majority of them voted against the PPP. In spite of all the electoral fraud and malpractices that the PPP engaged in on election day it was still defeated by the people. However the PPP is like the proverbial old dog that cannot learn new tricks. It is bent on governing in its old dictatorial ways. It wants to continue raping and plundering the state treasury at will. The PPP cannot accept that it now has to account to parliament and the people. APNU wishes to assure the Guyanese people that the days of PPP using parliament as a rubber stamp are over and we urge all Guyanese to rally around the APNU as we seek to enact legislation for constitutional and electoral reforms that would return democracy to the people.