IF IT’S NOT was so serious, it was a source of great laughter. The vice-chairman of the National Assembly has shown the back of his tongue in his capacity as chairman of the political party Abop. At the same time, he has also told a lot about how he does his business and that seriously raises eyebrows.
Brunswijk had invited himself D-TV Express to provide an (inter)national answer to the accusations of two captains who have been fighting for some time for what they call: justice at home. One is from Compagniecreek and the other from Sarakreek. Together with a few other captains in the area, they had united in the Wi Busi organization.
During a meeting to discuss the situation in the inland gold fields, they revealed that David Abiamofo, the Minister of Natural Resources, had allowed a Chinese entrepreneur to work in a certain area, while they had called for him not to do so.
The captain of Sarakreek said: “Na Abop e seri a kondre“The one from Compagniecreek has often raged about the defeat that locals suffer in the face of the bigwigs in politics: “Our own people sell us“, it sounded.
This bothered the Abop leader and he decided to respond to the men. And uniquely the leader of the yellow-black party, he did not bother to explain exactly how things went or what the policy looks like in that area. Absolutely not.
He bounced the ball back hard and explained how these men were putting their own area “up for sale”. One by taking money from skalians – so Brunswijk knows that this is selling the land – and the other (from Compagniekreek) because gold has been dug so deeply that water sources have been polluted.
If Brunswijk had left it at that, it would have been half as bad. But he also let slip that “those in government have to find their own way to get money” and “I have my way. If I have to do something for someone, they have to pay me“.
He also generously admitted to receiving money from Chinese who work on his concessions: “And anyone who doesn’t want to pay can leave“As a true Robin Hood, he made it known that he is not taking local people away from his concessions, of which he believes he only has ten of two hundred hectares each.
A ‘little man’, in contrast to Yokohama and Naarendorp (he did not mention his first name, … ed.), each of which has a concession of 150,000 hectares, according to him. In passing, he also announced that he is giving Abiamofo, who put his party there, directives on who should and who should not receive a concession.
It is pure, unfiltered irony that Brunswijk reveals his way of doing business, a day after President Jennifer Geerlings-Simons called for a completely different structure of the gold sector. One with more transparency and overview. If the head of state does not take action against coalition partner Brunswijk after he has explained all this, no one will take her seriously anymore. The battle therefore seems to be over in the gold sector for the ‘cautious’ Geerlings-Simons.
