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Last Updated: Feb 13, 2017 - 1:45:37 AM |
 Nassau, Bahamas - The following is a press statement by Bradley B. Roberts
National Chairman
Progressive Liberal Party:
Senator Michael Pintard recently said the Leader of the Opposition was a Junkanoo man and would have said to Bradley Roberts PLP Chairman “Don’t sing it! Bring It”. Pintard went on to say that the PLP Chairman should have one of his colleagues lay the files on the table of the House since he is unable to do so in person given what may be on his file.
Pintard demanded that if Bradley Roberts knows things the FNM did not know, then he should put up or shut the hell up.
Well after further taunting by Dr. Minnis and Senator Pintard, PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts late Thursday afternoon responded to the public challenge and provided irrefutable proof even for a blind man to see that Dr. Hubert Minnis failed to disclose his interest in the Stat Care Building lease agreement with the Public Hospital Authority and by doing so under sworn oath, Dr. Minnis not only misrepresented himself, his FNM party and the Bahamas government, but wilfully misled the public, breeched the public trust and therefore must be condemned.
Further, Chairman Roberts appeared as a talk show guest on Guardian Radio on Friday afternoon past and called for Dr. Minnis' resignation as a Member of Parliament as he failed an important Constitution test.
Oh yes Dr. Minnis' larger problem is that he willfully misled the House and under the Westminster of governance, the honourable course of action is to tender his resignation under those circumstances. Failure to do so will only deepen a constitutional crisis that Dr. Minnis created through his willful dishonesty and disdain for our system of democratic governance.
The lame attempt by Dr. Minnis and other FNM apologists to hide Minnis behind a corporate body is laughable and insulating because a corporation cannot sign a contract, people do and Dr. Minnis signed the contract as the company's president. In doing so he is liable and culpable of a conflict between his public duty and his private business interests. Further, he is guilty of using and abusing the office of cabinet minister to assign unto himself an unreasonable financial benefit and advantage. His actions represent greed and corruption in its worst form and no amount of dancing around this issue can change those facts.
Also, because Dr. Minnis maintains his innocence in the face of incontrovertible evidence, he must come clean and explain if he received any financial benefit from more than $450,000 paid to the "corporation" he is hiding behind or did the corporation cash the checks and spent the monies paid by the Public Hospital Authority. Minnis must clarify this conundrum.
Would Dr. Minnis also indicate whether or not he returned all $450,000 paid to Leechez Investment while he sat as a cabinet minister for five years because he spent the last three years telling the Bahamian people how clean his hands are; how honest he is; how he is above reproach and intolerant of corruption and how transparency and accountability will be the order of the day if he ever became Prime Minister of The Bahamas.
So while he was busy duping the Bahamian people with his empty rhetoric and playing them for fools by misleading them about his character, he had both of his hands in the cookie jar all the while. When he was caught red handed, there was no admission of guilt; no admission of an error in judgment; no contriteness of spirit and no apology, just pure arrogance and rank disdain for the sensibilities of the Bahamian people and the democratic system of governance on which this country is built.
Dr. Minnis is well advised that Bahamians who he is politically answerable to are taking note and will judge him not on what he says, but what he does.
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