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Vote-buying intensifies, survey finds
Some Jamaicans said selling their franchise for mackerel and rice
BY JANICE BUDD Associate Editor — Sunday buddj@jamaicaobserver
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However, he noted that the data suggest a more deadly practice persists; the exchange of guns for votes, a feature of violent elections in the 1970s and 80s. Some of those surveyed said they had recently witnessed this.
"... three young men were seen demanding a gun from the MP and were witnessed collecting them at later dates. It is important to note that two of these guns were distributed only weeks ago, suggesting that politicians are still in the business of distributing guns to inner-city youth. In these latter cases, the respondent explained that they saw the youth begging for the gun and also saw when a car turned up with a package to give the youth. In one case, the youth pulled a 9mm Glock pistol only minutes after the delivery was made and publicly boasted that his MP was for real.
"Him a di real big man. Look pon what him send for me. Now mi can go look some food," the young man is reported as saying.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1fZTwVLj9
Some Jamaicans said selling their franchise for mackerel and rice
BY JANICE BUDD Associate Editor — Sunday buddj@jamaicaobserver
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1fZUGkJu8
However, he noted that the data suggest a more deadly practice persists; the exchange of guns for votes, a feature of violent elections in the 1970s and 80s. Some of those surveyed said they had recently witnessed this.
"... three young men were seen demanding a gun from the MP and were witnessed collecting them at later dates. It is important to note that two of these guns were distributed only weeks ago, suggesting that politicians are still in the business of distributing guns to inner-city youth. In these latter cases, the respondent explained that they saw the youth begging for the gun and also saw when a car turned up with a package to give the youth. In one case, the youth pulled a 9mm Glock pistol only minutes after the delivery was made and publicly boasted that his MP was for real.
"Him a di real big man. Look pon what him send for me. Now mi can go look some food," the young man is reported as saying.
Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/...#ixzz1fZTwVLj9
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