The Jagdeo regime has been furthest from lean, clean and mean

Jul 05, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,

I thank another phantom writer one R. Constance for his letter (Kaieteur News dated July 3, 2010), captioned, “Why this great turn around?” For his information, I still praise Minister Robert Persaud, when he deserves praise, since he has been one of the better performing Ministers. If Constance can read the blog on the SN article captioned: “US$1million abattoir…” of July 1, 2010, he/she will see that I said this about Minister Robert Persaud:

“Every country of the world including India has a world class slaughter house. You know if Guyana gets certified, we can export prized beef and pork to the Caribbean and North America. I am not into this kind of meat eating, but who am I to tell a Muslim or a Caucasian not to eat beef or pork?

Congrats Minister, I am impressed with your delivery. I wish if more people in Government watch your work and learn how to govern.

Keep up the good work in diversifying the economy.”

Thus precept of this phantom writer’s letter is just a red herring to deviate from the substance that there is a mass hysteria in the Jagdeo camp as the legacy disappears. But to answer his/her question: Why this great turnaround? here is the answer.

My training in the PPP was driven by the message of the founder leader of the PPP, Dr Cheddi Jagan that “the sweat of labour must be justly rewarded, the Government machinery must be lean, clean and mean so that more of the surplus wealth can be distributed to the most needy, that the Government must be the machinery to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor”. Need I go on Phantom Writer Constance?

This Jagdeo regime has directly impoverished labour in Guyana. Talk to the bauxite and sugar workers and the public servants. The Jagdeo regime has been furthest from lean, clean or mean with hundreds of cases of Government’s excess, corruption, waste and squander-mania in full swing in Guyana. There is no concrete public policy to put systems in place to bring this mass leakage of the taxpayers’ fund under control.

There is a deliberate attempt by the Jagdeo regime to suppress the Public Procurement Commission so that more Amaila Road Projects can be undertaken through the back door, all at the expense of the taxpayers. The corruption has become so cancerous that even the international agencies are questioning the veracity of all documents, statements and information from the Jagdeo regime. As the Jagdeo regime empower its friends and cronies, all at the taxpayers’ expense, it is people like me whom have to take a stand.

Should I stand by Jagan’s ideals, or should I be opportunistic and put on my blinkers for a Jagdeo job? For the public information, I turned down an offer for a job as a Permanent Secretary in my past life, so this is not about job, this is about principle. I am not for sale. Build the nation and the society and we shall help; rob the nation and you shall feel the wrath of the righteous people.

I want to encourage the phantom writer Constance, if he/she wants me to fade away, then just do one thing – put strategies in place to accelerate the reduction of the divide between the rich and the poor and I shall grant him his/her wish.

Now if this letter had come from someone who is not a phantom writer, I would have graced it with a more surgical response dissecting the propaganda. However I want to encourage him to return to his day job of stirring their miasma as they plan for their next victim in their mad crusade to suppress free speech in Guyana. Pick another rasta since this rasta too thick skinned to even pay focused attention to finger-lings like this phantom writer, Constance.

Sasenarine Singh