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Feb 18, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
The PPP seems to be failing in their usual tactics of Dismiss, Deny and Delay these days and credit must be given to the press and the public who continue to ask more and more questions.
Now let me break down the scenario for us here:-
Minister makes a mistake in parliament stating laptops cost $295,000 dollars vs. US$295.00. It was also quite striking that this minister who is also the Junior Minister of Finance did not quickly recognise her mistake in parliament.
After all you just have to divide by 200? And not only did she fail in parliament to pick up on this “mistake”, but every single one of her other colleagues also failed to identify her error in parliament.
Kaieteur News then found out that the Office of the President did purchase a number of laptops at a much higher cost of 500 + US dollars after the Office of the President was denying that any laptops were purchased at that price.
Now we hear those laptops were purchased as gifts – Office of the President celebrating Christmas in February. Well that is a new high for these chaps eh?
Then we subsequently heard that Huawei Corporation gave an initial set of 100 plus laptops for free – I am not buying this for a minute.
We also know that this whole laptop thing did not go through any procurement or bidding process – why not? Should this after 19 years not be mandatory for Burnham err sorry I mean Jagdeo?
Who knows what tomorrow’s nancy story will be?
The bottom line however, is that the PPP and the President several weeks later still cannot get their story straight. Let me be clear I do not believe any of this jim cock bring ram goat story that Bharrat Jagdeo is feeding us.
Now he is going to claim that the opposition wants to kill the project. This also is another big fat lie. We want transparency and accountability, is that too much to ask 19 years later?
What the opposition is pointing out is that even when the PPP is claiming they are attempting to do something good it is riddled in corruption, lies and eventually the taxpayer is the one who foots the bill for all these fraudulent ventures.
If the President wants to deflect all of the criticisms leveled at him over the Laptop ‘Flip-Flop’, I suggest that he immediately publish all the documents, including the letter from Huawei stating what they gave the people of Guyana as “gifts” and also publish all the contracts and documentation regarding this project. Give us a full accounting of expenditures to date. Is this too much to ask 19 years later?
Better yet appoint a bipartisan committee in parliament to oversee the project and this way the President will win, the people will win and the opposition will have to shut up.
But let me predict, the President will never be transparent about any of his dealings.
There is an undisputed record of this and that is why the Office of the President does not have any audits to show us where the lotto funds are being spent and that is also another major flouting of the constitution and blatant violation of the laws of this country by the President.
Brandon Samaroo

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