Even as the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Inc yesterday commissioned a new substation on Mandela Avenue, Prime Minister Samuel Hinds yesterday suggested that APNU supporters are electricity thieves, a statement labelled as “plain stupid” by Opposition Leader David Granger.
“I call on (APNU) MP (Joe) Harmon to join me in bringing down the losses, the non- technical losses we are having. Some 40% in areas to the South and West of Georgetown where he has political standing,” Hinds said at the commissioning of the Ruimveldt substation yesterday. “Where total losses are down to 10 and 12 percent, we see areas in the South and West of Georgetown where losses are up to 60 percent; 20 percent technical and 40 percent non-technical…let us start leading our people into the right things let us not make ambiguous statements,” he said.
When contacted by Stabroek News, both Granger and Harmon expressed outrage calling on the Prime Minister to withdraw his comments as they