Minister Rohee lives in a world of 'make belief’

Minister Rohee lives in a world of ‘make belief’

Feb 06, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
Well well, at last, apart from those at our Mental Hospital and some who roam the streets, talking and answering themselves.
At the level of the Guyana Cabinet, we have folks who live in a world of ‘make belief.’ Our most Hon. Minister of Home Affairs asseverates not at a party, or private place, but in our Parliament, that there is no breakdown of law and order, and setting aside reality makes this claim that, this was the case since 1992, when the PPP/C took office.
This last week alone, we witnessed several instances of breakdown of law and order.
But may 1 remind him of the mayhem, criminality and violence, which characterized the 1957-1964 PPP administration (a breakdown of law and Order): the murders of non-PPP supporters; the wanton burning of cane fields; the deliberate provocation of Government and other workers before and after the infamous Kaldor Budget; the PPP reaction to peaceful, passive resistance by the TUC and their unions.
The famous statement by Dr. Jagan after the Independence talks in London did not go the way he wished. He promised a hurricane of protests. This translated into violence and destruction of public and private property.
For those who lived through that period of stress and pain, the list of incidents is too long for this letter.
The Grenade that exploded in the hands of a known PPP activist, the machine guns found in rice bags, consigned to the PPP controlled Rice Board, the blowing up of the “Son Chapman” on the Demerara River.
It was the Burnham-D’Aguair coalition of 1964, which brought sanity, and a regime of peace to Guyana. They restored law and Order.
Now after 1992, Mr. Rohee glibly talks about law and Order?
What of the Roger Khan saga — the black clothes and phantom squads. Are not these examples of a breakdown of law and Order?
But then this Hon. Minister has not for the first time demonstrated a serious language problem. It was he who in the midst of merciless beatings and torture, baptized such atrocities and barbaric behaviour as “just roughing up”
The contents of the dossier prepared by the Opposition, I suppose, does not represent a break down of law and order. Perhaps just a slight twist of law and order — Oh Dear Lord, move us from this etymological disaster.
But Mr. Editor and people, as I reflect to conclude this letter, I owe the Minister an apology, there exist no law and order under his watch, so there can be no breakdown of what does not exist.
Hamilton Green, JP

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