President of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Peter Phillips, has asserted that the leadership of the St James Municipal Corporation was seeking to undermine the minority caucus because of their efforts to expose corruption in local government.
Phillips, who was speaking at a PNP meeting held at The University of the West Indies on Sunday, said that there was a link between the happenings at the St Ann Municipal Corporation, which is now under investigation by the Integrity Commission, and the booting of two PNP councillors from the one in St James.
But Phillips felt that it was an abuse of power given the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is an abuse of power and dishonesty,” Phillips charged to cheers from close political organisers in the party.
It is a pattern which is also evidence from the reports received from the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation (KSAMC), where the internal audit committee that was set up under the previous administration is being dismantled,” Phillips said.
