There is greater need for an IMC at the national level of governance

Sep 20, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The current state of the Capital City is a microcosmic representation of what the nation of Guyana has become. Yes, there might be corruption and ineffectual leadership in the governance of City Hall, but that can be extrapolated across the administration of the nation.
The difference is that those who are in charge of national Governance, as exemplified by the decision to use the technology of lie detector test to challenge the veracity of those in the lower order of public service, while granting immunity to themselves, can ignore the steamship that is in their eyes, while hypocritically waxing indignantly over the canoe in the eyes of the Mayor and none genuflecting members of the City Council.
If ever there was need for an image to accompany the definition of hypocrisy in the English lexicon, we need look no further than the PPP Government’s political assault upon the Capital City of Georgetown.
There is no need for speculation on what is happening in Guyana as regards the City of Georgetown and the PPP Government.
There is little doubt that if the political and ethnic demographics were not as they currently are, garbage would not be piling up in the city, and the Mayor would not be the target he has become in the sights of the PPP dictatorial impetus.
It is what it is, and the sad thing is that the political hypocrites feel confident and secure that they can hold the city and its inhabitants, for political ransom.
I am not a fan of the stewardship of Mayor Green. I believe that he has brought this upon himself by holding his tongue too long while the metaphorical political barbarians laid siege to the economic, social and cultural bastions of Georgetown.
I believe, that like too many in and of Guyana, the Mayor has become locked into the hubristic notion that he is either indispensable, or his ego and personal sense of self surmounts whatever concerns he has for the residents of Georgetown in general, and those who voted him into office in particular.
That said, I consider the political grab by the PPP to nullify the ballot choice of the people of Georgetown as one of the more insidious acts that party has indulged in since assuming the mantle of national leadership.
The PPP Government is proposing remedial actions at a city level that it will not dare to entertain or consider at a national level. If there is need for IMC management of the affairs of Georgetown because of corruption and inefficiency among those elected by the residents to do thus, then what about the state of affairs at the national level.
There is, unequivocally, a greater need to apply the remedies being proposed by the PPP, with respect to the state of affairs in the city, at a national level. Because if all was fine and dandy in terms of fairness and balance, administrative efficiency, equality of concern and respect, in the handling of the affairs of the nation, there would be little need or reason to tinker with the democratic mechanisms for selecting leadership of Georgetown.
Fix the head, and by force of the laws of gravity, stability and efficiency will fluently and effortlessly course downwards infecting every crevice and every cranny in the Geographic sphere of Guyana.
There is something surreal in the way things operate in Guyana today. It is almost as if the national level of acuity and basic commonsense have been forcibly and conveniently depressed to produce a collective mindset reminiscent of the Maiden and her parents, who stood petrified lamenting the possibility of injury to her betrothed, from a mallet falling from its position on a ledge over a door he had to walk through. Older folks will remember the West Indian Reader school book tale depicting this retarded sequence of thinking.
The Political Government of Guyana that affirms its right to rule based on winning elections seeks to reverse such affirmations with respect to leadership over a constituent geography it has never won in an election.
A Government that ignores evidence of collusion and corruption at a national level, seeks to use allegations of same at a city level to achieve what electoral polls have failed to grant it. George Orwell had to have peeped into the future, examined the last 19 years of Guyana’s history, and then sat down and proceeded to provide us with an accurate and powerful dystopian representation through the medium of “Animal Farm”
Robin Williams

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