… for failing to execute instructions
Insubordinate officials attached to the Region Four’s Regional Democratic Council (RDC) will be reprimanded by Regional Chairman Daniel Seeram.
Seeram and his Vice Chairman, Samuel Sandy have accused the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) of using regional officials to undermine their work and Seeram has promised that those guilty of stymieing the work of the RDC will be dealt with condignly at the Council’s next statutory meeting.
Only recently, Deputy Regional Executive Officer (DREO) Deryck Persaud (Region Four) attempted to reassign the vehicle used by Sandy without explanation. Apart from this, Seeram said that Persaud and others have ignored Council instructions on multiple occasions.
“As Chairman, I’m writing memos to the Deputy Regional Executive Officer Mr. Deryck Persaud and he’s not sending out my memos to have staff attend certain functions and to have Heads of Department attend certain meetings. More importantly, he’s not taking my calls [or] coming to my office when summoned and this is a total disrespect in which letters of reprimand were issued and further disciplinary actions will take place at our next statutory meeting,” Seeram said on Friday at a press conference.
Seeram said on Friday morning he issued a memo directly to the Registry inviting Heads of Department to an important meeting but the Department, headed by a Ms. Benjamin, refused to issue the memo.
“We can see that professional persons are now taking political stance in the Region. This is bad, it is toxic and it is going to pollute the Region further. I, as the Regional Chairman and the Vice Chairman, will stop this pollution immediately and these so-called professionals will be reprimanded for the actions that they take,” he promised.
Seeram, a former Officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) said that he will not allow the stymieing of development in the Region as is attempted by the DREO. The Regional Chairman said too that he is not being informed about the COVID-19 developments in the Region.
“We urge those professionals that want to turn politicians within the Regional Democratic Council Region Four to write their letters of resignation, join a political party, pay your dues, become a candidate on a list, go and campaign and then you can be a politician… Otherwise to that, if you choose to remain at the RDC Region Four, Demerara-Mahaica, then we will have issues and you will be severely reprimanded at the level of the Council,” he said.
Meanwhile, in a statement, Sandy stressed that the supreme authority of the Region is the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) and the Council must be allowed to formulate and implement policies for the Region which must be implemented by the Regional Public Service, inclusive of the Regional Executive Officer (REO).
He told the media: “The people in Regions Four, Seven and Ten have chosen the APNU+AFC Coalition as the political party they want to manage the affairs of their Region. It is therefore unacceptable for the PPP to seek to use public servants against the elected Councils to achieve their narrow, partisan and malicious political ends.”
