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FOI is an undeniable right guaranteed by our Constitution

Mar 05, 2011 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Freedom to access information is an undeniable right guaranteed by our constitution. The Article 146 (1) of the Constitution of Guyana clearly states, “no person shall be hindered in the enjoyment of his freedom of expression, that is to say, freedom to hold opinions without interference, freedom to receive ideas and information without interference, freedom to communicate ideas and information without interference and freedom from interference with his correspondence.”
Thus this sluggishness of the PPP to enforce these fundamental rights of the people is most inexcusable. Their deceitfulness in their letter to the Speaker of the House is a clear hint of the dishonesty in their intentions.
What make this wrongdoing and censorship of the people basic rights even worst, is that the PPP found that The Pensions (President, Parliamentary and Special Offices) Bill 2010 was more important in its Legislative Agenda than the Freedom of Information Laws. It is time we the Guyanese people wake up and see what these people are doing with our money, our power.
What is it that the PPP have to hide, the Lap Top Project? The skullduggery in the procurement process, the open theft of the taxpayers’ money in the procurement of pharmaceuticals, by the Ministry of Health and the unashamed abuse of the people’s money in the Ministry of Agriculture and the Drainage and Irrigation Projects?
I want to thank Mr. Prakash Ramjattan and his Team in the AFC for protesting in favour of this Freedom of Information laws.
This is the kind of political activism Guyana craves for on a daily basis and we the working poor are happy that we have a fighter in young Mr. Ramjattan.
Keep up the struggle against these oppressors in the PPP young Ramjattan. We the people will remember you come election time.
As an aside, why is the AFC not protesting on the bauxite workers issue?
Prettypaul Singh

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