Is there any real interest in appointing an impartial Ombudsman?

Sep 11, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News Editorial 29th August, 2009: “Why no office of the Ombudsman?” Same question I have been asking myself a long time now.
Really Mr. Editor, I wanted to write this letter in Creole, but I know that, “these news papa ain’t deh suit.”
What I always consider to be one of the most horrible things in any society, is to be wronged; feel cheated; taken advantaged of; to witness stark, crass, brazen and eye pass swindling and fraud of state funds that is principally gotten from the labour of the working class, and have nowhere, and no one, no recourse to which one can lodge a petition if one has no money.
I have heard about so many ugly/dirty things happening that require independent investigation, yet you know that it can never be, so you know that the “constant irregularities” will continue.
Why? Because there is no office of the Ombudsman. I looked at the skimpish bridges and pump house as shown on the Kaieteur News front page, and read the astronomical cost that is done so shamelessly, and wondered.
And while I can understand that by virtue of his office the President is granted special dispensation in executing his duties during his term in office, he still remains first and foremost accountable as the head trustee of the nation’s wealth/resources, and should not be totally immune from investigation by the Ombudsman. This land is indeed “a playground for the rich and famous, and a milch cow for the people in government office.”
So we will continue to experience abject poverty and along with it social and moral breakdown, violence and finally revolution.
Frank Fyffe

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