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Let 2009 be the year for action

Jan 07, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Forbes Burnham every year designated a theme for the country. Those who never understood, the theme served as motivation and guidance for action. Applying this wisdom: Let 2009 be the Year For Action. This is the year to demand action for ourselves and from our leaders.
Flood waters have inundated and destroyed our lands and homes for weeks. After the Great Floods of 2005 we shouldn’t have to suffer these losses again.
Many have not returned to their quality of life prior to the floods. What is happening on the East Coast Demerara is a disgrace.
Residents in the villages of Victoria, Dazzell Housing Scheme, Golden Grove, Friendship, Buxton, Nabaclis are being treated by this government like second class citizens.
No system has been put in place to properly manage the water, offer health or sanitation care to residents. The AFC Leader, Raphael Trotman is a son of Golden Grove. PNC and AFC supporters populate these villages.
The villages of Lusignan, Annandale, Enmore, Good Hope, Hope, and Clonbrook are taken care of.
The government continues to provide better drainage facilities and send representatives into the villages to supply health and sanitation care to residents. These are PPP supporters.
I am not offended the PPP is protecting its supporters. Neither am I offended AFC Chairman, Khemraj Ramjattan, “says that the President must declare the flood-affected areas, particularly the farmlands, to be disaster areas.”
I am deeply offended and disturbed that some villages have been left to suffer and there is no action by Trotman and Corbin to demand our fair share. Corbin and Trotman, the certain villages are being taken care of by tax payers’ money.
You are sitting in the comfort of your upper-class neighbourhoods and watching others make appeals to declare farmlands disaster areas, ask for compensation, and money being spent only on providing better drainage, health and sanitation care for certain villages.
Get out of your homes, go into every village and witness for yourselves the sufferings and agony of the villagers, who are your supporters. Demand from the government equitable distribution of our money.
Stop the silence and inaction! You should be enraged at the inequity, indignity and economic sufferings faced by Africans.
You cannot be ashamed to speak about discrimination when it stares you everyday in the face. If you cannot lead, get out the way and allow others who can lead to take charge. This is the Year For Action!
Osafo Modibo

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