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OLPF – full disclosure a must

Mar 25, 2011 Letters

Dear Editor,
Guyanese, need a full disclosure on the One Laptop per Family (OLPF) project. The recent exposure of this project, which is nothing short of ‘executive pilfering’, must urge us to seek in depth examination, public, examination of this project.
Jud Lohmeyer’s, the sacked project officer, informed us of how surprised he was when his economic situation drastically changed from living on $40,000 Guyanese dollars to earning US$100,000 per annum. He informed us the new hired project officer, a friend of Office of the President, in receiving US$250,000. With this kind of money throwing around in the compound of the President’s Office Guyanese must be asking themselves why so many of us live in poverty.
Lohmeyer told us that the project is nothing but a money making scheme, a description which is applicable to all government projects, and to the ‘belly’ of the tender board process.
During the last 19 years of this PPP/C government, Guyanese have witnessed all sorts of corruption within the government agencies and sectors. The recent OLPF debacle confirms the doubt that these corrupt practices have strong roots in the Office of the President. We have seen scams in all shapes, forms and properties with the hardest property being the ‘stone scam’. We have seen wharves built, with billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money, only to float away shortly after. We have seen a half mile loam road rack up a construction cost of more than US$20 million. We have seen the flaunting of Pradovilles, constructed for government officials, which many estimate is equal to the national debt of the United States, as the rest of the population live on ‘Gaza Strip’, a new village name you recognise as graffiti written on walls as you enter many villages on the lower East Coast and elsewhere.
We must stop the raping of the treasury by the executive pilferers and demand full disclosure and openness of all projects, pet or otherwise. The OLPF must not be allowed to continue without a reexamination of all details. Payments and emoluments must be justified.
Lurlene Nestor

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