Shuman’s appointment as advisor conflicts with parliamentary role

Dear Editor,

Mr. Lenox Shuman no longer has any Liberty to do any Justice to his Party. His recent appointment as advisor on Civil Aviation is a clear conflict of interest with the mandate the Guyanese people gave him to be a legitimate third party force in parliament. How can he serve under the Jagdeo-Ali administration and at the same time hold it to account in parliament? We are literally asking Mr. Shuman to grade his own common entrance paper and I assure you jaws will drop when he arrives at the junction of Camp Road and Thomas Lands.

As for Mr. Ralph Ramkarran there is nothing new or united about him; he is only re-united with the PPP. I’m disappointed that this legal luminary and veteran politician has vacated his vision to create something new for the Guyanese people and has instead returned home to nest.

Inclusive government theoretically sounds plausible but if the PPP would like to pursue this route then Mr. Shuman must resign his seat in parliament and distance himself from the TNM-LJP-ANUG partnership. This is a matter of the separation of powers. We simply cannot have people who are part of the executive being a part of the legislature’s opposition at the same time.

Yours faithfully,

Othniel Lewis