Dear Editor,
I am not sure why the governments de jure believe that the Guyanese people are interested in malfeasance committed by public officials when we have SOCU. I have seen this circus before. For this reason, I concluded Guyanese people don’t care about opportunistic endeavours of officials. For instance, there are no daily countrywide protests seeking justice for the same.
The issue lies with the degree of how Guyanese interpret the illegality of giving yourself a raise be it from tax evasion or misappropriation of state or local funds and assets. I am interested in a list of names of officials that have been incarcerated for embezzlement over the last quarter century. Moreover, over the same period, the number of politicians skyrocketed who are listed amongst the wealthiest people in the country.
Lastly, until there are widespread protest about corruption, government de jure should make available to the public every year a year over year comparative analysis of the assets of all state and local governments officials, members of parliaments and their donors. This should create fodder for many of discourses among the citizenry.
Yours faithfully,
Keith Bernard
