Some two months after incriminating allegations were made against 2nd Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo by Chinese businessman Mr. Su Zhi Rong no effort has been made to initiate a promised investigation by President Ali to determine the veracity of Su’s allegations.
On Tuesday, August 16, 2022, the APNU+AFC at its weekly press conference suggested that this refusal by the Irfaan Ali regime to investigate the allegations of bribery and corruption against Second Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo continues to embolden corrupt officers in the Guyana Police Force and other state institutions such as GuySuCo to be involved in corruption, bribery, extra-judicial killings, and the unlawful cover-up of murders and other illegalities.
The party accused the installed Government of destroying the independence and professionalism of the Guyana Police Force in order to render it incapable of discharging its functions.
According to Norton the politicization of the GPF is clearly intended to protect the elite of the PPP, friends, and family. The PPP is compelled to criminalise the state so it can be protected. He further argued that a state that operates based on the rule of law is impossible under the PPP.
It is in that context the party again call on the Vice President to resign or be removed from office and for an international credible investigation team to investigate the allegations against Bharrat Jagdeo, the party said in a statement said.
In an explosive undercover investigation, earlier this, international news organizations Vice News released a documentary in which a Chinese businessman was recorded leveling bribery and corruption allegations against the Vice President.
Su was recorded telling the Vice News team who posed as investors that bribes would have to be paid to the Vice President for them to be guaranteed contracts in Guyana. He could be heard on the recording too telling the team that Jagdeo only accepts “cash.”
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