Dear Editor,
The PPP has been in office for almost twenty-two years and during that time politics has been a zero sum game; it’s all or nothing for them. The dystopian society that exists under the PPP today stretches human credulity when the word democracy and PPP are mentioned in the same sentence. The PPP controls the time by which duly scheduled local government elections should be held and has failed to hold them in twenty years.
Imagine an entire generation has come of age where basic services such as electricity and drinking water are still unreliable. Debt forgiveness, good will and numerous opportunities to inclusively move the nation forward have been squandered and the national patrimony now lies in the hands of PPP oligarchs who have been created within the past decade. The PPP has bamboozled its followers into believing that the party believes in Marxist communist ideology while senior functionaries and well-connected party supporters are super capitalists.
The PPP has demonstrably proven that unless the ideas, policies or people in charge of governmental institutions have sworn fealty to the party, they will be marginalized or sometimes victimized and ostracized. Ironically, the very things the PPP lobbied and protested against have been perfected under their watch, and now Guyana is a semi-lawless state that could become a full-fledged narco-state which is one step from being a failed state. Under the PPP Guyana is not a nation of laws that are to be abided by everyone regardless of social or political status.
A permissive atmosphere has been created under the PPP that gives carte blanche to senior officials or those well connected to those in high office. The list of those connected to the government who have broken the law with impunity is long and well documented.
When the sitting Attorney General represents a member of the cabinet in what appears to be a private matter, it is gravely troubling and should raise the hackles of every person of conscience. When last checked, Brian Yong is a private citizen and not part of the government but is a friend of the minister. Why then did Brian Yong and not the attorney general or a member of his legal staff respond to the crime scene? For the Attorney General to belatedly proffer that the Minister of Finance was still on duty when he was driving the vehicle is an insult to the nation. Was former minister Kellawan Lall on duty when he discharged a firearm on the road during an altercation? I won’t even wade into the money laundering bill imbroglio but suffice it to say that after failing to bring a bill to parliament when they had the majority, the PPP does not seem to wish to see the current bill become a properly functioning law.
Setting aside the two well-meaning but uninspiring leaders of the main opposition parties and given the foregoing litany of scandal and damage that the PPP has inflicted on the nation, it begs the question, who will save Guyana from the PPP?
Yours faithfully,
Nigel Jason
