The A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance for Change (APNU/AFC) government had racked up debts across the country and demitted office with millions owed to local service providers.
Even now, four years later, the incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) is still trying to clear the massive backlog, Vice President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo shared on Wednesday.
At his weekly party presser at Freedom House in Georgetown, Jagdeo noted that the backlog has not been cleared even though monies were budged each year to cater to these payments.
“I met a young afro Guyanese mechanic and he said to me that for four years I am looking after the police vehicles; there are 150 vehicles I fixed, and here is a list of all of them, and I have not received my payment. And he’s pushed around all the time,” Jagdeo shared.
Even as they are trying to make the payments now, it is difficult to find the records from the period APNU was in power, Jagdeo said.
“They owe a ton of people, a ton of people around the country.”
“The people who are picking up the dead from the parlours, and these are people who are sympathetic to APNU. We now have to end up paying them,” he added.
He reflected on what the party did in the health sector just before the 2019 elections.
“They hired about 400/500 persons in the first month to work for elections, basically to say oh you’re getting jobs, and never paid them. We ended up paying them….for the whole year that they worked.”
