Attorney General and Legal Affairs Minister, Mohabir Anil Nandlall SC, has labelled promises made by the A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) as “unsustainable’ and ‘unrealistic’. So much so, that if elected, the APNU will cause Guyana to go bankrupt within months.
He made these comments and more during his recent “Issues in the News” programme.
Aside from the promises being unrealistic, Nandlall criticized the APNU for failing to keep the promises it made in the lead up to the last elections. He stated that the APNU in partnership with the Alliance for Change (AFC) for the 2015 Elections made several promises that it claimed it would deliver within 100 days. However, after winning office, the coalition failed to deliver.
He said the APNU is once again taking the same “promises galore” approach as it campaigns for office. He scoffed at the party’s latest pledges, including “$1 million for every Guyanese, 35% increase in public servant wages, senior citizens to get pensions at $1,000 per month, the income tax threshold would be increased to $400,000, every child would get $120,000 annually.”
“With these few promises that I have just written down here, within six months of government, we are bankrupt or very close to bankruptcy. There is not an iota of thought being given to sustainability, to affordability, to the financial and physical ability to deliver these promises. Nothing like that. Nothing like that. Just doling out promises,” Nandlall said.
He likened the party to a “con man,” saying, “A con man will tell you anything that you want to hear. Because he wants you to part with whatever he wants from you. So he will tell you anything that would allow him to get what he wants.”
