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There has definitely been a lull in the PNCR and AFC’s vibrancy

Oct 20, 2008 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
Ayofemi Agard in responding to a letter by Osafa Modibo lambasting the AFC and PNCR, made an important point as it relates to African Guyanese needing to be more united. 

Ayofemi’s letter captioned “The job of the restoration of Africans in Guyana falls on every shoulder” however, slightly did some injustice to Modibo’s missive.

Ayofemi Agard cannot slight Modibo for her clarion call on those two parties to do more in representation of improving the conditions of black people in Guyana. Very many African Guyanese, who support those two political parties, are of the same view. There has definitely been a lull in both parties vibrancy on this front.

Ayofemi, the working class mechanic, builder, labourer, street vendor, etc, careless about diplomatic engagements and countless pages of writings or dossiers, (though important they are in the long term redressing and bringing about solutions to the issues you mentioned), what they see is a country where people are being tortured, executed, raped, wrongfully imprisoned without any proper recourse to justice. What they see is their basic living conditions being worsened almost daily.

These people have given their votes to those two parties and not to the PPP/C. The mandate is therefore theirs to show tangible representation at this crucial juncture of our social and economic demise at the hands of the present government. Confidence has to be restored and African Guyanese have lost faith in their government.

They have united behind the AFC and PNCR, only to see non political freedom fighters like Lincoln Lewis, Mark Benschop, Oliver Hinckson and Freddie Kissoon, among others confronting, in a visible, vocal and practical manner, the daily injustices that have Guyanese deadlocked in fear and uncertainty as to what the future holds.

It is the perception if not fact that these appalling injustices are allowed and encouraged by politicians in power. The politicians out of power must do more in making their representation evident to regain trust.

Robert Corbin and Raphael Trotman must first unite as politicians to confront the monster that runs amok across the nation.  That is the irony in your call for unity among Africans in Guyana. 

Norman Browne

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