Govt. must remove corrupt public officers

Aug 21, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
I do not blame drivers after reading this headline in Kaieteur news dated August 20.08 “Beating the radars…Drivers develop ways to beat police checkpoints”.

At Cove and John a driver was caught on the radar gun doing 50 kmph in a 48 kmph zone and was pulled over by a police woman for speeding.

The police lady asked the driver why he was speeding and the driver said it was only 2 kmph over the speed limit and asked to be given a break.

The good police lady said these exact words to the driver “leff a raise wid me nuh and den yuh can go”. The good police lady collected one thousand dollars before she let the driver go.

Next injustice I observed is at the passport office where a man went to renew his friend’s passport with authorisation.

He asked the good lady at the desk to point him to the renewal section and she said, “ask the guy next to you”. The guy next to the lady when asked where the renewal section is, said “join the line”.

The man joined the line which took about 45 minutes to get back to the counter. When he got to the counter he was told by the very officer at the counter that “he was in the wrong line” and was directed to the proper line for renewals.

One would think that after 16 years in office the ruling PPP/C Government would have taken care of these injustices to Guyanese.

It is so easy for Government to do sting undercover operations to catch these people and remove them from places of authority.

Clearly it showed that the police are out to harass and make money when a driver is pulled over for doing 50 kmph in a 48 kmph zone. Clearly it showed that this woman and man at the passport office are out to harass and frustrate Guyanese.

This PPP/C Government was elected by the people for the people to stamp out corruption but after 16 years in power, corruption still continues.

The people are not only sick and tired but totally fed up with Government for not removing these corrupt individuals so as to wipe out this plague of corruption from Guyana.
T. King