Dear Editor,
Confirmation comes daily as to why we are where we are, and how the mighty PPP gets away with what it does. The latest word came from the mountaintop where Guyana’s opposition resides: October. The party’s long-delayed, much anticipated Congress may occur in October. This say much about what goes on here, which is where I go. If this Congress is in October, it would be approximately 18 months since a new government took office, and the opposition is what passes for an opposition. Editor, let me share what sense is. I wrote somewhere that the PPP and PNC have always been in bed. Think of this now: if Congress takes place in October, I forecast controversy dogging it afterwards. If by some manmade miracle that does not materialize, then it would take the PNC (and AFC) practically into 2022 to get going re visions and approaches and tactics. That is very late; oil boat and governance boats have already sailed. The people’s money boat, too, would have been ransacked and pillaged in cash corruptions (COVID-19 and floods).
Editor, think of this, too. If trusted PNC people were accused by their own of taking PPP elections money (suspected Exxon money), then how can either party refuse Exxon’s money and not try this utterly unconvincing notion about legitimacy? I think that both parties are taking Guyanese for a ride, rendering those fools. Meaning, the 99.99% of them that care not, think not. I will do the dirty job of thinking: listen to president and Vice President and their lips are frozen. Do identically with all Opposition Leaders, and silence reigns. Where clean and open oil management are concerned, our politics is a monastery: vows of silence. The religious monks and nuns wait on heaven. PPP and PNC leaders get theirs right here. It is the price of silence, the expense of inaction, the cost for vacant leadership stares and states. Exxon has the deep pockets to step up for political cowardice, to sponsor ongoing division, to foster delay and dilly-dallying. It does. I tender the opposition, which is a stealth job in the making; and the government a done deal with its leaders hogtied hand and foot. It wasn’t just the PNC that lost; the PPP did, too. Citizens did most of all.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
