Ogunseye’s actions demand condign, quick action – PPP General Secretary

The controversial comments by the Working People’s Alliance’s (WPA) Tacuma Ogunseye are a “law and order” issue and demand condign and quick action, according to the General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo.

“These are illegal acts and police need to deal with them,” he said, during the news conference on Thursday (March 23, 2023), which was held at Freedom House.

Ogunseye, at a public meeting in Buxton on March 9, 2023, stathe ed that WPA’s objectives were clear and the first is “to get the African team in a state of battle readiness… the Afro-Guyanese police and soldiers… would stand with Afro-Guyanese in resisting mainly Indo-Guyanese supporting the PPP/C…no government could survive if they don’t have the support of the military and those who carry weapons for the state…once we organise our people and once we begin to fight we will ensure that our brothers and sisters in uniform will do the right thing…a white diplomat pulled me in a corner and he said I don’t understand how people complain that they are oppressed and they are holding guns in their hands. They are the majority in the army, in the police, and they say they are oppressed. What he was saying is our problem is our own making. Our problem is our own making. Anytime we turn those guns in the right direction it is over.”

Prior to that, on March 5, 2023 at a meeting at Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara, Ogunseye threatened the ranks of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) and the Guyana Police Force. He said, “We in the WPA say that a time will come in this country very soon, where we