Ramkalawan in total denial
The LDS presidential candidate Wavel Ramkalawan has seen himself going back on almost every stance he took on major issues in the country as he throws everything he has in the bid for the Presidency. A six times loser in the presidential race, Ramkalawan is hoping that the forthcoming elections will finally propel him into the leading actor role in the country – that is the Office of the President! To get there, he is ready to give up his own core beliefs on issues and eat humble pie along the way.
The nation hardly needed reminding about the forceful statement he made before the National Assembly on the methadone affair. He had at the time advocated that the drug addicts in our society be put on a cold turkey treatment instead of spending millions in taxpayers’ money to buy methadone for them. Unbelievable, come the preparations for the elections and immediately Ramkalawan is all trite and bashful and all but asking forgiveness for having said the addicts should go cold turkey. In his PPB he states that a government which he would lead would increase the dosage of the ones relying on the methadone!
He had also verbally attacked the agency responsible for drugs addicts’ rehabilitation and who also run the methadone programme. In his attack at the time he had shouted out that the agency APDAR should never have been created in the first place! Again, unbelievably in his PPB he is telling the APDAR officials what a laudable job they are doing and promising them that their jobs are safe!
Whereas his party had initially asked for an increase in the salary home carers got, when the matter came before the National Assembly, he and LDS quibbled about where to get the money to pay the increase from and eventually abstained on the vote to pass the law which made this salary increase possible. Again now that he is fighting for political survival, Ramkalawan suddenly remembers that his party pushed for that increase, but he conveniently forgets that he was so against it, that he did not vote at all on the matter.
