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Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) chair­man Feeroz Khan says he in­tend­ed no dis­re­spect to the 26 em­ploy­ees whose con­tracts were not re­newed last week, de­spite his de­ci­sion be­ing framed by his de­scrip­tion of the Cor­po­ra­tion as a “sick cow rid­dled with ticks.”

Khan sought to clar­i­fy that he was not re­fer­ring to the work­ers at HDC as “ticks.”

But his anal­o­gy drew sharp crit­i­cism from Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment Chair­man Mar­vin Gon­za­les who claimed that this is an­oth­er ex­am­ple of the Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress’ “de­mon­i­sa­tion and at­tack against poor peo­ple.”