PPP General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo last week said that it was wrong for one of the party’s councillors on the isle of Wakenaam to link access to a state cash grant with the purchase of tickets for a hotdog sale.
People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Councillor and activist on the Essequibo River island, Sadiq Ahmad had been recorded as threatening to remove recipients from the April cash grant list if they did not support a hotdog sale in aid of the PPP.
On the sidelines of a press conference at Freedom House, when asked about the incident, Jagdeo said, “People do this all the time from the other side. This guy he did something. There is no connection, if he links (the) cash grant to buying tickets from the government or the party then he should not have done so, and it is wrong. So as General Secretary, I’m saying that because we don’t connect benefits of the state to doing anything for the party. We have thousands of people around this country who because of our congress are engaged in party activities raising funds. They have one guy … who made that statement so it’s not something that we support, in fact we condemn it.”