RURAL Development and Local Government Minister Faris Al-Rawi says a document allegedly instructing Community-Based Environmental Protection and Enhancement Programme (Cepep) workers to support Prime Minister Stuart Young is fake and must be rejected by the population.

Cepep falls under the Rural Development and Local Government Ministry.

In a statement on April 7, Al-Rawi said, "The document, which falsely claims that Cepep workers are being coerced into supporting the Honourable Prime Minister under veiled threats of exclusion from future employment, is not only entirely fictitious but is a malicious attempt to undermine public confidence in our democratic institutions, in the leadership of the Prime Minister, and in the integrity of government programmes."