Wil Maheia Gifts 10 Tablets – is the Act of Kindness to Solicit Votes in Fort George?
At the top of the newscast, you heard from Fort George hopeful Wil Maheia of the B.P.P. We caught up with Maheia at the Memorial Park in Belize City where he was giving away ten tablets to students from the Fort George Division. Maheia says this donation is just the start. So, we asked him if those tablets are an incentive to get votes in the constituency just weeks before the general elections. Here’s what he shared about his initiative.
Wil Maheia, Fort George Standard Bearer, B.P.P.
“Today, we the hand over some tablets. I mean this dah like a gesture of good will to show the people we are serious about what we are doing. Serious and committed to education. They people ask me Mr. Wil, we could get help fu education and that is how we decide look we got to show seriousness about our education. So, I gone to my friends and say look mien, Fort George we need some help for the kids. I wah mek you buy a table; you buy a tablet; you buy tablet. Ten tablets come from ten different individuals. So, we know that it is within Belizeans and they want to see a difference. When I win this division, I will not take home any of the pay that I will get until every kid in Fort George has a tablet. Every kid in high school will have a tablet – my first few paychecks or until every kid has will go towards buying tablets or I will try and hustle the money just like I did for this.”
Wil Maheia
Andrea Polanco
“Wil, I must ask, is this an attempt to buy votes in Fort George?”
Wil Maheia
“Absolutely not. It’s a reasonable question because people haven’t really done this. When I did walk through people weren’t saying hey I want drink or I wah eat – people wanted education and that is how I decided to zero in on the tablets and this is just the first of the many we will be giving out.”
Andrea Polanco
“We’ve seen where third parties, independent candidates always condemn when we see the mass parties give out stoves; other appliances or doing raffles – you always condemn these kinds of acts but the BPP is doing pretty much the same thing today?”
Wil Maheia
“How can anyone condemn giving a youth, especially in a time of COVID-19, none of these kids right here are able to take classes online so that cannot be condemned. If you condemn that it means you hate education.”
