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Hail Jah’s perfect brethren!
There is a very interesting Mirror column last week by the secretary of the organ that runs the PPP, the 15-member executive committee, Mr. Hydar Ally. It is difficult to fathom the psychic motive behind this essay. There are only two interpretations available. I will insist only two. Either Mr. Ally is subtly getting at President Jagdeo (Ally to his credit has never been a fan of Jagdeo; he was quickly relieved of his post as Deputy HPS after being appointed) or Mr. Ally is being the traditional/typical PPP Freudian child that at a deep psychological level sees the PPP as the world’s most phenomenal group of people.
The latter assessment has been with the PPP since its birth. Anyone reading the countless pieces written by Mrs. Janet Jagan over the past four decades in the Mirror newspaper would know that the PPP is conceptualized as God’s gift to Guyana ( if you believe in God then something is not right here when you consider how evil are some aspects of PPP’s rule).
You can cite the most sickening mistake by the PPP when in government in the sixties or since 1992 and not even a whisper of regret comes from the lips of any PPP member whether at the first, second, third or fourth level of leadership. It has been one of the most damaging and destructive motifs on the collective psychological make-up of the PPP.
Here are two examples I just randomly pulled out of my memory bank. I was shopping at the Bourda Green on Merriman Mall when I ran into this Central Executive Committee member of the PPP that is a Permanent Secretary. I relayed the bitter complaint of a friend who was her driver and is owed a large sum for overtime work. With no emotions in her voice, she told me his money has been held up by the people who run the public service, the PNC.
She flatly told me the PPP does not run things in Guyana. I was born and raised in south Georgetown where cussing comes easily. To avoid a return to the atavism of my pristine youthfulness of Wortmanville, I politely walked away.
Here is the second example, one evening after a meeting at UG, I spoke to the same Hydar Ally about a Permanent Secretary whom a GRA inquiry proved was guilty of signing more than fifty bogus duty free letters. That same Hydar Ally, whose eye-raising Mirror column I will come to below, in his usual quiet tone, informed me that it was the Ministry’s clerks that were at fault and that they tricked the guy into signing.
Well alright. As absurd as that explanation was, why is a Permanent Secretary that can be manipulated by low level clerks still being retained in his job and even promoted? The answer was that PPP personnel are of a unique, historical type. They are not capable of wrong-doing. That kind of world view by people who run a troubled nation like Guyana desperately seeking a survivalist pathway to the future can only lead it into destruction. Deep in my heart I believe a PPP victory in 2011 will definitely ruin this country.
Let’s visit that Hydar Ally viewpoint titled; “The Power of Apology.” Ally goes at length to discuss the value of leaders acknowledging when they are wrong and having the moral courage to apologise. Mr. Ally is all praise for President Obama. He wrote that less than a month in power, President Obama was not arrogant to hide the mistakes he has since made and was happy to apologise.
Ally went on to cite other examples of leaders saying “sorry” to their citizens. He missed out on President Sarkozy of France who, on attaining 100 days in office, asked the French people to bear up with him for the mistakes he has thus far made.
Here are Mr. Ally’s own words; “…one way of politicians demonstrating honesty is to admit mistakes…failing to admit diminishes a person, regardless of how powerful that person may be….”
So what do you make of this essay by a key PPP player at Freedom House? He demands that the PNC apologises for what it did when it was in power. But he makes no reference to any example of his government falling down; the examples of such are more numerous than when the PNC was in power.
What about President Jagdeo and the Queen’s Atlantic deal or the fact that Mr. Varshnie Singh was not legally the First Lady? Was Ally subtly hinting at Jagdeo or is he saying that there is no need for an apology from the PPP; that they are Jah’s perfect creatures?
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