The Alliance for Change (AFC) has added its voice to public outrage of the assault of Ms. Varsha Bharrat by Ossie Rogers which was captured on video over the weekend of October 16-17, 2022. Rogers, media personality and known activist of the People Progressive Party (PPP), was caught on tape violently assaulting Ms. Bharrat in a Supermarket in Bath, Region 5. He has been charged for the offense and reportedly has since skipped the country. In 2014 Rogers was remanded for assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Read full text of the part’s statement below: –
Over the weekend of October 16-17, 2022, People Progressive Party (PPP) activist and media personality Ossie Rogers viciously, violently assaulted Ms. Varsha Bharrat in a Supermarket in Bath, Region 5. A part of the assault was captured by a CCTV camera of the said establishment.
The video shows Rogers, who resides in the USA, hitting Ms. Bharrat about her body during what appeared to be an argument. Ms. Bharrat later said in a video statement on social media that she was also gun-butted by Mr. Rogers.
Ossie Rogers, who was under investigation and had been detained for a short period of time and released on self-bail, was allowed to leave the jurisdiction earlier than he had planned, in an effort to avoid prosecution.
The violent assault of Ms. Bharrat, who complained of pains about her body, including her head, and the absolute silence of the PPP and their usual chorus of sycophants has not gone unnoticed and adds to a long string of egregious acts by the PPP in not holding it officials to account.
The PPP continues to pay lip service to good governance and the rule of law in this regard as in others. More so the PPP are hypocrites as they espouse the defense of, care, and concern for women but conveniently stay silent when strong actions are needed the most. They consistently fail to rise to the occasion.
Where is the justice for Varsha Bharrat and the numerous other women who have suffered and continue to suffer at the hands of men protected by the PPP? Justice too long delayed is still considered justice denied.
The decayed and decadent minds in the PPP may consider matters closed where these infractions are concerned but they are not closed for the Guyanese people.
In the not-too-distant future, Guyanese will have their opportunity to recall the entire installed People’s Progressive Party! Indeed, as the great Civil Rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King said, “The moral arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice”.
