‘No one can penalise us for speaking out on NHI’ – Edmund G. Maduro
"Mr Sowande Uhuru (Natalio D. Wheatley) cannot lose his job because he has put this petition forward," declared Maduro.
He was speaking during his EGM Show aired on ZROD 103.7 FM last evening October 29, 2015.
Wheatley is currently employed as a lecturer at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College in Paraquita Bay. He is also the brainchild behind the petition against the National Health Insurance (NHI) and on October 13, 2015 the group presented that petition with over 700 signatures to Premier Dr The Honourable D. Orlando Smith.
Dr Smith is yet to respond to the group on his decision as to whether the NHI will be amended.
Maduro reiterated that for doing the people a service, Wheatley cannot be persecuted.
"He's standing up not only for a local obligation but for an obligation which is international," he said, referring to the International Declaration of Human Rights.
Maduro said that there are people who want to shut him and his colleagues up. "There are those who are trying to prevent us from fighting for our natural human rights. Right now there are those who are trying to penalise us... to victimise us because we are standing up for the rights of the people and trying to get the Government to look again at the NHI in order to protect you and I and every one of us from abuse."
He said because of the convention government or anyone else cannot penalise who is a party to the petition whether they are from the territory or not.
"They cannot penalise Sowande by making him lose his job. They cannot penalise any of us who have taken the step to support Sowande because it is an international right. And if they ever try to do that we will take them to court and stand up and fight for our rights," he said.
It is not clear whether Mr Wheatley is being victimised on his job due to his stance on NHI.
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