Don’t ask the Americans for help

Sep 08, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Peeping Tom wants the Americans to help the Auditor General’s Office to determine the real price of the Stanleytown Pump.
I have to say that I am taken aback by this because Kaieteur News has already published a slew of articles claiming that the newspaper knows the real figure.
Try as I might to reconcile the Peeper’s request with the big headlines on the Pump, I must confess I have come up empty handed.
In fact the Peeper’s article “Ask the Americans for Help” is an essay in contradiction.
The Peeper writes thus – “If and when the Auditor General conducts an investigation and a value-for-money audit into the Stanleytown Pump Station, he will have an opportunity to determine just what price was paid…” Fair enough.
But go down two paragraphs and see what the Peeper says. Here he is in his own words – “Any school child provided with the name and model and horsepower of the pump can search via “Google” and come up with comparable prices for the pump in question” (Kaieteur News September 6).
If I may say Peeper, – any school boy or girl would easily see the shallowness in the above constructions.
In the meantime the Peeper is completely silent on the figures provided by the contractor Mr. Tulsi. Rather than leaving the matter to the Americans, or to school kids, why doesn’t the Peeper himself refute those figures?
If the alleged fraud is so transparent, this should be a piece of cake.
Finally, the Peeper ought to have more confidence in Guyanese. It is so tiring to see a major columnist seeking from the Americans for a matter that is apparently so easy to determine.
One final point, I take the Peeper’s call for further investigations in the pump story as an admission by Kaieteur News that it really does not know enough about the matter.
Peeper – doesn’t your article amount to a retraction of the Stanleytown Pump accusations?
Randy Persaud

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