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Dames: Bradley Roberts talking more nonsense, as usual
By Marvin Dames, FNM candidate for Mount Moriah
Dec 4, 2016 - 7:10:04 PM

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As usual, blood is on the streets and all Bradley Roberts is concerned about is politics.

His voice is silent while young men slaughter each other, while women die clutching their Bibles under a hail of automatic gunfire.

The Progressive Liberal Party has proven to be a dismal failure on crime. Women and men alike are afraid to traverse New Providence when the sun goes down.

Bahamians say silent prayers before they enter their homes, hoping they won’t become victims of burglaries or, worse.

New Providence has become less safe, and Roberts offers nothing. No comfort for the dead, no solace for the afraid.

When I left the Royal Bahamas Police Force in 2011, you had a police force that the full support of an administration that did not see fit to insert its political machinations into our fine military organizations.

The PLP has since made a mockery of our force - rehiring those already put out to pasture, creating a secret agency under the guise of intelligence that operates outside the ambit of law, allowing political concerns to trump the integrity of service.
When the Free National Movement returns to power, we will approach crime as the scourge that it is. We won't take the anecdotal approach that the current administration has adopted, that crime is no longer a major concern.

We will unshackle the Commissioner of Police, and remove the undue and unwise political interference that has plagued our force.

The Free National Movement will support the rank and file of the force as well as the senior management and we will bring clarity to whatever the National Intelligence Agency is, bringing it under the ambit of proper statute law, if it is indeed a tool that we can use.

Should Bradley Roberts seek to do more than blather to save his political skin, he will find a willing and amenable partner in myself and the FNM when the PLP takes its role as Her Majesty's Opposition after the next general election.

Should, he, however, continue to spew nonsense to gain imaginary political brownie points, his voice will be cast onto the heap of noise making, unhelpful, ineffective chatter that has taken precedence over serious crime-fighting solutions that have proven to be to the detriment of all Bahamians.

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