Portia To Country Regarding Azan, F*** You.

Richard Azan mem­ber of Parlaiment for North West Clarendon and for­mer Junior Minister in the Ministry of Transport , Works and Housing was again ele­vat­ed to Cabinet posi­tion. Richard Azan resigned after infor­ma­tion came to light that he in his posi­tion as Member of Parliament for North West Clarendon and as Junior Minister in the min­istry afore­men­tioned, abused his author­i­ty, con­trary to what he is legal­ly empow­ered, to give per­mis­sion for a pri­vate con­trac­tor to build shops on lands inside the refur­bished Spaldings Market, with­out the approval of the local author­i­ty that owned the property.

After the inci­dent came to light the monies which were col­lect­ed and paid to Azans con­stituen­cy office was alleged­ly con­ve­nient­ly returned to the parish coun­cil. For those not under­stand­ing Jamaican Politics let me explain. 1) Azan as mem­ber of par­lia­ment had zero author­i­ty to order con­struc­tion of the shops. That is with­in the author­i­ty of the Clarendon Parish coun­cil. 2) The polit­i­cal con­stituen­cy office has no author­i­ty to col­lect, much less keep rental-fees col­lect­ed from shop oper­a­tors. As such the Contractor General at the time Dirk Harrison rec­om­mend­ed that the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP)Paula Llewelyn prof­fer charges against Richard Azan. As a result of the scan­dal Azan ten­dered his res­ig­na­tion to the Prime Minister Portia Lucreita Simpson Miller.Miller accept­ed Azan’s Resignation and had this to say.

“I have accept­ed his res­ig­na­tion. I wish to place on record our thanks to him for his hard work and com­mit­ment to improv­ing the lives of the peo­ple dur­ing his tenure.” 

Azans res­ig­na­tion let­ter.September 20, 2013
The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller, ON, MP Prime Minister 
Office of the Prime Minister 
1 Devon Road 
Kingston 10 
Dear Prime Minister, 
The Contractor General has hand­ed in his report of his inves­ti­ga­tion into the erec­tion of wood­en shops on the periph­ery of the park­ing lot at the Spalding mar­ket. I wish to assure you and the Cabinet, that I received no mon­ey, favours or per­son­al ben­e­fit, finan­cial or oth­er­wise from the erec­tion or rental of the shops by Bryant Construction. My legal team has reviewed the report and advised that the Contractor General has come to cer­tain con­clu­sions not sup­port­ed by the facts and the team has rec­om­mend­ed that the report be chal­lenged. The team has also advised that the Contractor General’s report shows no evi­dence of dis­hon­esty on my part. 
In the cir­cum­stance, I wish to stand down from my min­is­te­r­i­al posi­tion. I will in the mean­time, vig­or­ous­ly fight to clear my name, which has been defamed by the Contractor General’s char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of cor­rup­tion and by utter­ances in sec­tions of the media. 
Yours respect­ful­ly, 
Richard Azan, JP. MP. 

Somehow despite the glar­ing fact that Azan 1)had no author­i­ty to autho­rize the build­ing of the shops or 2) his con­stituen­cy office col­lect­ed and pock­et­ed the fees col­lect­ed from rental of the shops no crim­i­nal charges has been filed by the DPP. The major tenet of the argu­ment for no crim­i­nal charges against Azan I heard is that the monies have been returned. By that log­ic every rob­ber , sim­ply has to return what­ev­er prop­er­ty he/​she steals and no harm no foul. Not to be out­done the Prime Minister reap­point­ed Richard Azan to his for­mer posi­tion. Azan’s rein­state­ment fol­lows a rul­ing by Paula Llewellyn, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), in September that no crim­i­nal charges be laid against him in the Spalding Market issue.

Well what do you know, same old pol­i­tics as usu­al in Jamaica, you scratch my back I scratch yours, some peo­ple are sim­ply above the law. Kern Spencer ripped off the mon­ey he and his acolyte col­lect­ed from the Cuban Light-Bulb project and years lat­er there is no res­o­lu­tion in that case which is lan­guish­ing in the bull-shit courts. Richard Azan does not even get charged despite clear­ly keep­ing the mon­ey he col­lect­ed. What the hell does it mat­ter if he made resti­tu­tion? The offence was already com­mit­ted, and in a in your face F***- you move the incom­pe­tent char­la­tan in Jamaica house stuck it to the coun­try by rein­stat­ing him to cab­i­net office. Jamaica has had some cor­rupt lead­ers, Portia is the worst.

INDECOM to harass cops doing their duties , risk­ing their lives for pen­nies. The Contractor General rec­om­mends crim­i­nal charges for Azan he gets a cab­i­net post instead.