Dear Editor,
I write concerning the no-confidence motion regarding which many felt payment was made to the MP that crossed to the side of the PPP. Money and promises of wealth and personal gain work wonders. Bharrat Jagdeo cashed in on some simple omission of my Government.
I am not worried being a supporter of the Government as I am aware of the constitution as it addresses elections, including the readiness of the Elections Commission to hold a national election. New registrations have to be done as thousands are without identification cards to cast their vote which is their constitutional right. To attempt to hold an election without fresh registration will be unconstitutional and it will bar many citizens without ID cards from voting.
Allocations for an election need a budget and a fresh Appropriations Bill for Parliament. I see this loss though psychologically bad, as a good. Government will now listen.
Jagdeo and his cohorts could cry all they want; a no-confidence motion doesn’t lead to fresh elections without the abovementioned legal issues being sorted out first. Trust me, at best these could take 14 months.
The Government, on the other hand, has five issues they took for granted that must be corrected now. There is much national development in all ten regions and they took this as the remedy. Well, it is not. I wish to reveal the remedy to take 60% of the seats in Parliament:
1. Release the investors you have held hostage for three years in hotel-building, oil refinery investment, private schools, agriculture etc.
2. Create jobs; you have the money, the space, the projects. Stop being complacent and self-centered; focus on your support base.
3. Ministers must leave their offices. Meet your people in a genuine way, not cosmetic gestures. Use the bottom house meetings; the New Nation and its editor are dead; use the TV, social media, newspapers, talk shows to remind Guyanese of the murders, corruption, and disappearances of Guyanese.
4. Vigorously prosecute them in the courts, no amnesty. Stop the destruction currently at the AG’s office. We have been playing doll-house politics while Jagdeo exhibited dangerous political venom. Leave the bars, it’s time to fight.
5. Finally, spend money on people, scholarships, on your support-base areas.
I conclude the PPP will not, must not go back into office. Never again must Guyana be afflicted by a PPP government.
Yours faithfully,
(Name and address provided)
