The Opposition PNP is demanding an audit of the government’s fertiliser programme.
According to the party’s General Secretary Dr Dayton Campbell there has been a corrupt diversion of fertiliser from the government’s distribution programme, in a vote-buying scheme that misappropriates Jamaican taxpayers’ funds as part of a vote buying scheme for the looming Local Government polls.
In a video the Opposition claims that Friday night, across multiple divisions in western Jamaica, the JLP distributed significant quantities of fertiliser to their political election representatives.
In highlighting images from the purported video Dr Campbell who is also the party’s spokesman on agriculture declared that particularly alarming is the observed offloading of substantial allocations at the private residence of the JLP councillor candidate for the White House division of Eastern Westmoreland, and at the private offices of the member of parliament for Central Westmoreland.
Dr Dayton Campbell, PNP General Secretary.
According to to him the bags of government property were being delivered from a truck registered to the Member of Parliament for Eastern Hanover, Dave Brown, and was tracked making several other deposits across western Jamaica at JLP representatives’ properties.
Dr. Campbell says he will not rest until the issue is adequately addressed by the Andrew Holness led administration.
Dr Campbell said, “If these bags of fertiliser are indeed from those previously announced by the agriculture minister for the most needy and qualified farmers through approved agencies like RADA, concerns arise over why JLP political representatives are receiving government-procured fertilisers by the truckload, especially during nighttime.”
The PNP is calling for an immediate halt to the programme and a thorough audit of the related distribution activities. As the nation approaches this critical election, the PNP remains steadfast in its commitment to ensuring a fair and just electoral process. The party firmly believes that Jamaica deserves a government with zero tolerance for corruption, dedicated to the well-being of its people.
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