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Bahamian Politics
Sidney Collie’s Statement Regarding Sherlyn Hall being Replaced
By The Free National Movement
May 7, 2017 - 3:19:08 PM

Sidney Collie, Free National Movement (FNM) Chairman, issued the following statement regarding the PLP’s pretend acts of accountability:

“How interesting it is that the embattled Prime Minister would pretend to exhibit accountability by removing Parliamentary Registration Commissioner Sherlyn Hall. Prime Minister Christie’s actions serve to shine a disturbing spotlight on his continued indifference to holding his cabinet members accountable for their brazen, and blatant abuse of power. After this Government completely fumbled Wednesday’s advanced poll, the embattled Prime Minister claimed an investigation would be opened immediately, saying ‘an explanation, obviously is needed’.

“Where was the Prime Minister’s attention to responsibility for the last five years, when the Parliamentary Registration Office obviously lacked adequate resources. After failures in every election during his term, why didn’t he make staffing changes until 5 days before this year’s general election. It is clear that Hall’s firing is simply smoke-in-mirrors—a PLP ploy to convince the public that they act accountably although their laundry-list of failures prove otherwise.

“Yet while Parliamentary Commissioner Sherlyn Hall is fired for doing his job—with inadequate support from the government—the Prime Minister shields Jerome Fitzgerald, who admitted to conflicts of interest that breached Cabinet Rules. True to form, the embattled Prime Minister hasn’t taken questions from the media concerning his corrupt cabinet’s self-admitted lack of ethics until this day. Rather than heeding the public’s demands, or even looking into the matter, he simply calls the proven allegations ‘fake news’ and at a rally he even praised Fitzgerald.

“This Government finds new ways to insult every Bahamian that believes in accountability and transparency. Only when the people have their say on May 10th, will the PLP’s disastrous rule come to end".