Dear Editor,
Now that the PPP/C government has been taken to task by the GHRA for being in denial, would this indeed wake them up to Guyana’s urgent realities? Doubts reign supreme.
More evidence of the PPP/C in denial? The PPP/C has failed to balance Guyana’s armed forces despite being in power for 20 years with the 1980 constitution, which gave them no grounds for excuses. More evidence of the PPP/C in denial? Its socialist class struggles and history were not found incompatible with its rapid correction of an African deficiency in diplomatic service appointments – in less than three months! But…
Considering Mr Mike McCormack’s criticisms in SN of May 11 titled ‘Ruling party appears in denial over election results –GHRA’ can anyone seriously believe that the PPP/C can continue in power forever? Must the PPP/C‘s refusal to learn from history find them continuously repeating the same mistakes? Why is this issue not on their urgent national agenda? Just watch the charade when they inevitably become the opposition party. “Oh we made some mistakes,” would be the concession, and the ritual to excite their supporters in a wine-up tassa dance to demand the balancing of the armed forces will start all over again. How much better that wine gets the more it ages.
If the PPP/C needs any further ‘kicks’ that it must get over its current denial, it must reconcile all its laudable economic achievements with the GHRA’s assertion, “Moreover, since the ruling party has to date offered little to either its own supporters or other citizens [see what I mean?], particularly the young, with respect to jobs, education or a more attractive future, any snap election could only be won by appealing to [Indian] ethnic loyalties.” The GHRA has already placed blame in advance on those with any perceived “ethnic loyalties” to the PPP/C in case of snap elections. The GHRA even finishes off the AFC with its pen, realizing that mostly Indian votes currently sustain it.
Why does the same GHRA (or a few others) find no fault whatsoever with any African ethnic loyalties, when Africans massively voted for the same PNC under which they suffered for 28 years? Can Mr Mike McCormack’s GHRA ever reconcile his deafening silence with significant African migration back to the PNC/APNU in 2011 despite the fact they voted for the AFC in 2006, but which now has an Indian leader? The GHRA can only be seen as being duplicitous in highlighting the PPP/C’s failure to effectively resolve “its own supporters or other citizens” problems, including their ethnic security interests (which have been paramount and are well documented). When the GHRA emerges to champion the ethnic balancing of Guyana’s armed forces only then would it gain the true respect and credibility with which it adorns itself.
So far the current PNC leadership has yet to capitalize on President Hoyte‘s highly favourable image among Indians compared to that of Mr Forbes Burnham. When will we Guyanese ever learn?
Yours faithfully,
Sultan Mohamed
