Hosein defends State enterprise dismissals

De­clar­ing that there are “re­al bad man” in Gov­ern­ment this time around, Land and Le­gal Af­fairs Min­is­ter Sad­dam Ho­sein has de­fend­ed the re­moval of per­son­nel from State en­ter­pris­es, ac­cus­ing the for­mer Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) ad­min­is­tra­tion of de­lib­er­ate­ly in­stalling po­lit­i­cal af­fil­i­ates in State in­sti­tu­tions to frus­trate an in­com­ing Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) gov­ern­ment.

Speak­ing dur­ing Fri­day’s Pri­vate Mem­bers’ Day de­bate on the mo­tion ti­tled “Gov­er­nance of State En­ter­pris­es and State-Con­trolled In­sti­tu­tions”, Ho­sein al­leged that some ap­point­ments were made just days be­fore the April 28, 2025, gen­er­al elec­tion.

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He claimed that, in one in­stance, an ad­vis­er to the for­mer agri­cul­ture min­is­ter was in­struct­ed to leave that po­si­tion and be­come deputy chief ex­ec­u­tive of­fi­cer of the Na­tion­al Agri­cul­tur­al Mar­ket­ing and De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (NAMDE­V­CO).