And, really, the contents of the reports give the UDP a bunch of bruises and black eyes which - they can scarcely afford as they limp into the last year of their third term.
Indeed, for a government elected on an anti-corruption platform, there have been all kinds of shameless mass-hustles. Yesterday, the Prime Minister and party leader Dean Barrow reflected on it, but, not surprisingly, still concluded that there had been more good done than bad:..
Rt. Hon. Dean Barrow, Prime Minister "I would say that while UDP has made its mistakes, while there have been ministers that have engaged in wrong doing, questionable activity, I and the party and the government have acted. It's a pity that my party can't go into the next general elections with a clean sheet, but nobody was ever simon-pure. I would have hoped that the blemishes would have been less than they are, I would have hoped that at this late stage, this kind of development would not have occurred. I hope that when people make the judgement and weigh out the good against the bad, they will find that the absolutely phenomenal track record of the UDP in terms of physical and infrastructural transformation, poverty alleviation, nationalism, all the rest of it would outweigh, the definite faults to which we have to concede and which are glaring. If they don't, I completely respect the judgement of the people."
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