Dear Editor,
In reference to an article published in the Guyana Chronicle on November 8, 2019 and titled `PPP abused, exploited Toshaos’, Lenox Shuman, Chairperson, Liberal and Justice Party (LJP) made disparaging remarks about me and the office I once held.
Whilst it is the stated position of the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) that it will not engage in attacks on the smaller emerging political parties, for we feel there is space in the PPP/C to accommodate these smaller parties, it will be remiss of me not to respond to Shuman’s vitriol since he singled me out.
His reported comments towards me and the office I once held, including staff with whom I served, the majority of them Amerindians, are wholly false, totally malicious and patently disingenuous.
Shuman is reported as saying “many of the chiefs, many of the Toshaos who visited the Ministry of Amerindian People’s Affairs during the PPP tenure were cursed and chased out, and verbally abused by the then Permanent Secretary, Nigel Dharamlall”.
Editor, during my tenure, which ended in May 2015, anyone who worked with me can attest to the immediate attention I gave to any visiting Toshao/village representative to my office. During my time in office, Shuman was not a chief or Toshao. As a matter of fact, I only first met Shuman in 2016. As such, his utterances are a figment of his devious imagination.
Yours faithfully,
Nigel Dharamlall
PPP/C MP
