The PPP government is reluctant to do anything about corruption due to its link with three discrete groups who finance the party’s leadership and fuel graft including a group of wealthy and influential businessmen with high political connections who profit from insider information, according to former PPP stalwart Ralph Ramkarran.
“It is now clear that the adamancy of the government and the PPP in refusing to acknowledge the level of corruption in the society, and to do something about it, is linked to where the corruption is located,” Ramkarran said in his column in the Sunday Stabroek in what was his most withering attack to date on the party of which he was a member for nearly 50 years and from which he resigned last year following his stance on corruption.
Ramkarran’s statements were yesterday endorsed by the local transparency watchdog,
