Here is the reason why the PPP will lose the next election

Sep 01, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I was born in and spent my whole life in South Georgetown; Wortmanville to be specific. I migrated three years ago to Turkeyen. I have always maintained in my social commentary that if the thousands of South Georgetown residents turn up to register and go out to ballot for the opposition forces, the PPP will lose the national elections. The PPP should have lost in 2001 and 2006, but those thousands were not on the electoral roll and if they were, they didn’t visit the polling stations on ballot day.
Now we have graphic evidence of how the PPP could lose the next poll. GECOM announced that 70,828 persons have not taken possession of their ID cards. All those persons are of voting age. I am contending that a substantial part of that uncollected sum belongs to South Georgetown and from districts where the voters if they go to the station, will vote against the PPP. In other words, there is the opposition victory staring you in the face. That is assuming, of course, that the election will be free and fair. My greatest fear is that it may not.
Let me unambiguous on this point – it is a fear I have, a fear I have a right to express that I am uncertain of the next general elections being open, transparent and totally insulated from conspiratorial input. Let me be pellucid and emphatic on another feeling in my heart – only that this one is not a fear, but the instinct of courage. This citizen here, who has no intention of migrating, will not be deterred nor will he submit to coercion in denouncing the abuse of power by the Government of Guyana. No one, I repeat, no one will be allowed by me to scare me in what I see as elected fascism and elected dictatorship in my homeland.
I am hearing nonsensical and comical talk from the little dictators that they will rumble with citizens who seek to create divisions in the country. That is of course a threat to citizens who want to expose the Achilles’ heel of the Government, and that is ethnic discrimination. Racial discrimination is an accusation the little dictators do not want citizens to even whisper about because it is the one aspect of their perverted rule that they know can hurt them if it is put on top of the opposition’s agenda. The little dictators will have to rumble with themselves because the divisions they don’t want people to talk about are the divisions they created in manners and ways more barefaced and morbid than when the PNC under Burnham ruled the land.
Who do the little dictators think they will frighten when they talk about rumbling with those who expound on the racially-driven policies of the power lords? Next time I see Mark Benschop I will ask him if he is afraid that he will be rumbled with if he speaks out on discrimination against African Guyanese by the tiny tyrants. I wonder how Mrs. Whyte-Nedd will feel if you tell her that Guyanese should not speak about racial divisions created by the PPP Government.
Sorry for the long digression, but back to rigged elections and those ID cards waiting to be picked up.
I express the trepidation about rigged elections because I feel the tiny tyrants know that if they lose the elections they will never, I repeat, never escape a Commission of Inquiry into their rule since 2002. I am saying most definitely that whichever political party wins the next elections other than the PPP, there will be a Commission of Inquiry into what has been the most sordid period of undemocratic rule ever seen in the English-speaking Caribbean. The phantom killings, the land deals, the contract scams, the sexual misdeeds, the foreign bank accounts, they will all be investigated. Could these people accept a free poll? I hope I am wrong.
Finally, the ID cards. The combined parliamentary opposition and the combined national opposition (the WPA and Benschop’s Independent Party included) now have the chance of a lifetime. National registration is on again in a week’s time. Every woman, man, boy and girl who wants to see the PPP defeated must spend 24 hours a day getting people to register. Every opposition party must spend all their energies 24 hours a day getting those people to collect their ID cards. All of us, not only opposition parties must dedicate ourselves to these two tasks. The job must begin right away.

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