– “They were providing guns for the PPP; they said it themselves.”
A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) candidate, Ronald Daniels recently delivered a spirited appeal to residents of Agricola, pleading with them to vote for the upliftment and protection of poor and vulnerable Guyanese as well as those who “look like yall.”
He told residents that if they analyze the options, they will find it best to vote APNU. Daniels claimed that the People’s Progressive Party/ civic (PPP/C) does not have the interest of poor people or black people at heart. He said that Agricola residents should not be fooled by the shenanigans of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party as the principals of that party worked with the PPP in the past.
“We talking foolishness about voting fuh Mohamed. Where was WIN when the youth of Agricola were losing their lives? WIN was friends with the PPP and because de relationship bruk up, that is when they suddenly know that the PPP treating people bad.
“They were providing guns for the PPP; they said it themselves. They were providing vehicles for the PPP, they said it themselves” Daniels reminded.
He told Agricola residents that blue is a colour of vexation, “is fall they fall out. That is why they wearing blue. Yall wake up, yall got to be conscious. Where was win when the people in Mocha were losing their lands?”
Daniels claimed that the PPP orchestrated an elaborate plan to get Mocha residents off their lands, claiming a road was meant to be constructed through that path. He said that the road was built in a completely different location, proving, according to him, that the PPP simply wanted that space to be vacant so it can eventually benefit their friends and family.
Daniels anticipated that he will be called racist for pointing out the plight of the black man. He said that black people who represent for their own are often dubbed racist but declared that black people cannot be racist.
According to him, “Racism is an economic enterprise. You got to be controlling resources to be racist and through racism they keep you out of resources. We do not have any resources to keep anybody out of, so black people cannot be racist.”
Daniels claimed that he found himself in situations where he had to dodge police bullets and was thrown into police van “just because I look like me while I hold two engineering diplomas and a law degree…but I get thrown into the police van because I look like me. You are marginalized because you look like you.”
He urged Agricola residents to have racial consciousness, “We have to love ourselves before we want anyone else to love us.”
Daniels asked, “Guyana is rich. But Agricola, are you rich people?” He said that places like Agricola, McDoom, Albouystown, Tiger Bay, Buxton and Mocha are starved from the nation’s riches.
