Dear Editor,
Some time last year the residents of Lamaha Gardens published in the print media a detailed double page notice on the suspected fraudulent sale of their community playground. The transaction involved government officials from a particular ministry, the Deeds Registry and other government bodies.
The shocking revelation of this transaction did not elicit a response from any minister of government, especially the Attorney General. There was no one jumping to defend the 300 plus households in Lamaha Gardens. However, quite recently your newspaper published a brilliant investigative editorial on the 142 Durbana Square playground fraud which involves government employees. Lo and behold, our Attorney General immediately pens a letter in defence of government actions (or inaction) with the said fraud. I must say he was very quick to jump to the government’s defence.
On Mashramani Day the Minister of Finance was involved in an accident and left the scene of the accident. The public has been well informed via the media and on social networks of what transpired and will make its own judgment as to whether the Minister’s action was above the law. Within days of the accident the Attorney General jumped in once again to the defence of the Minister. The victims of the accident never had any official representation from anyone in government.
Editor, my point is that the current PPP Government has lost its connection with the common man. They are so occupied with big projects, big schemes and a new bourgeois way of life that they cannot relate to the concerns of the ordinary folk.
Yours faithfully,
Marcus Craig
