Faced with the prospect of Alex Saab telling U.S. prosecutors the details of Gaston Browne’s corruption, the prime-minister-for-life has compounded his mistakes with ugly attacks on the character of Senator Malaka Parker.
Now, like his friend Nicolas Maduro, Browne is using the police to go after his political opponents.
“It is … deeply disturbing, though entirely predictable, that Prime Minister Gaston Browne, the bully that he is, has sought to weaponize his pulpit in an act of political opportunism. He has resorted to outright libel, lies, and innuendo to malign and denigrate, in an attempt to execute a public character assassination against me,” Senator Parker said in a video statement.
Browne made low comments on social media in an attempt to connect the senator to an associate who is embroiled in a sordid legal case.
“We have increasing evidence to suspect that certain senior police officers acting at the political behest of the prime minister are actively seeking ways to fabricate the connection between myself and the case where none exists,” said Parker.
“It is virtually unheard of in our region or anywhere for a sitting prime minister to weigh in so publicly and so aggressively on a pending court matter. And it is morally reprehensible for him to attempt to drag an innocent fellow citizen into it,” the senator said.
“I personally understand the method to Gaston Browne’s sustained madness. The Prime minister views this strong, independent, and competent black woman as a direct threat to his grip on power,” said a determined Parker.
“The prime minister knows better than anyone else that this woman will neither bend nor cower,” she said.
“These desperate tactics will fail, as will the prime minister’s outdated social media bullying. This corrupt and incompetent administration has revealed its true dealing with its appetite to weaponise the state against its political opponents while simultaneously protecting its friends, its insiders, and his young wife.”
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