U.D.P. Albert Standard Bearer Wants Political Leaders to be held Liable 

Jose Uc Espat, Barrow’s standard bearer for the Albert Division, shared his thoughts on the key issues that need addressing as we head into the elections. He emphasized that political leaders, both past and present, should be held accountable and liable. Espat pointed to the UN Convention Against Corruption, which would hold these officials legally responsible.

 

Jose Uc Espat, U.D.P. Standard Bearer, Albert

“Cost of living, infrastructure of the whole, the quality of the homes. And I speak of the houses first because the quality of the home is another issue that needs to be addressed. We have a lot of broken homes in this country that is caused by politically driven poverty to have a people in oppression to remain controlled by those in power. That’s not my objective. The only way every one of these: justice, the high cost of living – everything can be fixed, is if its not just a check and balance. We need liability, not only accountability because we have had so many senate inquiries and no one has set one foot in prison nor paid for what they have been found guilty of. So we can’t just have accountability and people know weh di happen. We have to have liability. If yoh da wa minister and you misappropriate certain amount ah money, yoh have to respond to that and yoh have to pay by the law, what you have to pay for misappropriating those monies because decisions made by leader sin this country, they nuh realize it, and their constituents nuh realize it and the people nuh realize it but every decision made by one of these people affects every single one of us out ya. So they have to be held not only accountable but liable.”