Dear Editor,

I refer to Osafo Modibo’s letter captioned ‘The PPP were not genuinely committed to power-sharing’ (07.03.16).

Modibo, Ogunseye and others keep talking of power-sharing once the PPP are in power. When the PPP were out of power, these same people never spoke of power-sharing. And the same thing applies to the PPP.

The fact of the matter is that both the Modibos of this world as well as the PPP believe in the unitary state which was inherited from colonialism. Until these people free themselves from the mental shackles of colonialism and realize that there are alternatives to the unitary state, they would continue to drive complaints and counter-complaints about power-sharing.

The best constitutional arrangements for the African Guyanese and indeed for everyone else is to establish a pluralist type of constitution where economic, social, political and cultural life and development could take place along the lines of the Swiss Constitution.

If Modibo and others have the holistic interest of the African Guyanese at heart, they should be calling for a Swiss-type constitution rather than” power-sharing” in a colonial-type unitary state.

Yours faithfully,

P. I. Peters