"IF I WERE TO TAKE SOMETHING IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN SOMETHING THIS SMALL..."
(Defend Haiti) -
PORT-AU-PRINCE - President Michel Martelly himself responded on Tuesday to allegations that he took money from a Dominican senator saying, "if I were going to take something, it would not be something this small." The president said he would be reviewing his accounts to see if the accusations are true...
President Martelly, who in his 10 month in office, a week prior received from Dominican President Leonel Fernandez, the Decoration of the Order of Duarte, Sanchez and Mella, a Grand Cross with Gold Breast Star, ranked the highest honor the Dominican Republic can bestow on a foreign chief of state, launched an early defense, saying that if he had taken money from the Dominican senator, Felix Bautista, a close friend to Fernandez, it would have not been an amount that small...
The Head of State, Martelly, further believes that it is because the news is coming from the Dominican Republic that people believe it is true. He said that the D.R. said he had an illegitimate son and people believed it. To Martelly, the allegations are on the order of the request for passports. He says now it is stealing, and next it will be something else.
Martelly said he is relaxed and will continue doing his work for the Republic of Haiti. He believes that there is a consortium of individuals trying to hinder him from bring change to Haiti.
A press release from the Presidency released on Monday characterized the corruption allegations as a "media lynching".
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