“Davis: I do not support corruption” – The Nassau Guardian

Excerpt from this article; “Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Philip Brave Davis told a crowd  of supporters last night that he does not support corruption in any form.

‘Friends, let me say something about the issue of corruption,’ he said during a joint PL branch meeting.

‘I’m not here to defend anyone, ever who takes money from the Bahamian people.

‘As far as I’m concern, if you take a dollar from the public treasury, you’re taking it from our kids, from our hospitals, from our future.’

‘So you show me evidence of corruption, I stand ready to condemn you, no matter your party, but you can’t skip over the evidence part.”

‘An accusation isn’t the same thing as proof, no matter how loudly you make it.”

So if you take it before it gets to the public treasury then is it okay?  I am just asking a general question for clarification.

Indeed it takes a very special person, with a very special mind to stand before a group of people and tell them that they do not support corruption in any form given that this very same person sat by a seemed to facilitate corrupt practices, in government and even within his own party.

Mr. Davis makes the statement; “So you show me evidence of corruption, I stand ready to condemn you, no matter your party, but you can’t skip the evidence part.”  Indeed, you cannot skip the evidence part but it light of poorly produced evidence, even Mr. Davis should seek to distance himself from perceived corruption; unless you live by the creed, “It is not what you know it is what you can prove.”

Mr. Davis says he needs evidence to support claims of corruption but if a bucket leaks but you cannot see the leak, then by his rational, the bucket is not leaking.

Mr. Davis, points to the Frank Smith case to prove a pattern of an attack on democracy and ‘persecution’ on PLP supporters, as he seeks to justify his support of former Urban Renewal Deputy Director Michelle Reckley, who now stands accused of defrauding the government of $1.2 million, and seems quick to point out that Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt in her ruling on the Frank Smith extortion case said that there was not a scintilla of evidence to support the charges [“There is not a scintilla of evidence to support the fact that there was meeting between Barbara Hanna and the accused prior to the award of the contract.”  Based on this Mr. Davis and supporters have called for the immediate resignation of Dr. Duane Sands, minister of health and Marvin Dames, minister of national security for alleged ‘wrong doings’, and all of this without a scintilla of evidence; let us also bear in mind that nowhere in her ruling did the chief magistrate suggest that the either Dames or Sands did anything criminal or even that former PLP senator, Frank Smith was innocent of the charges brought before him.

Indeed, Mr. Davis is a very special person with a very special mind and while many may suggest that he himself may be corrupt or not corrupt; his seeming wiliness to facilitate corrupt practices by turn a blind-eye to them leaves a lot to be thought about.

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