Christopher Ram, the PPP and Transparency International

Apr 09, 2011 Letters

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Dear Editor,
A few days ago, I read in Kaieteur News that Minister Manzoor Nadir has called for the removal of Christopher Ram, Enrico Woolford, Keith Parks and others from the Guyana Chapter of Transparency International (TI) because Mr. Nadir and the PPP consider them to be anti-government activists.
Mr. Nadir and PPP regime believe that they can have their cake and eat it too.
Transparency International reports on the transgressions of the PPP regime and it is for this reason that Mr. Nadir is asking the parent organisation to remove its Guyana members.
The fact that the PPP has asked for the removal of Ram, Woolford and Parks shows that the regime does not want its wrong doings to be exposed. Such action by the PPP regime is considered brazen, dishonest, and malicious and is without merit.
The regime is too embarrassed to mount a challenge on the report issued by TI because it knows that it is accurate.
It is time for all Guyanese to stand up and resist the threats and fear imposed on them by the PPP regime because right is right and it should not be trampled on or abridged by the regime.
Guyana! Change is coming. End the fear and docility that have gripped the country for almost a decade. The once docile residents of the Middle East region have now become aggressive.
Guyanese! Rise up and reclaim your natural rights to free speech, freedom of information, to assemble and to a fair and speedy trial. Democracy is not only about elections, it is also about natural rights which previous generations have fought and died for.
Back to Mr. Nadir and TI. The corrupt PPP regime should be the last in the Caribbean to challenge such reputable organisations as TI that seeks to report on the illegal activities in Guyana, including the high crime rates, massive corruption, torture, narcotics and human trafficking, discrimination and marginalisation of Afro-Guyanese, and the rapes and sexual molestation of under age boys and girls by the untouchables.
The PPP is the only regime in the Caribbean to charge its citizens of treason. Mark Benschop is the first and now they are three others. I think that the PPP regime is more foolish than the average Guyanese thinks.
For the past six years, the PPP regime has failed miserably to solve the murders of Ronald Waddell, Minister Sawh, members of his family, and more than 300 Guyanese.
The regime has refused to tell Guyanese about its association with convicted drug dealer Roger Khan even though evidence at Khan’s trail in New York revealed that he was acting on behalf of the regime.
Instead of Jagdeo and the PPP turning their venom on decent citizens like Ram, Woolford, Parks and others, they should first take a very careful look at themselves in the mirror where they will see a group of individuals who have used the state resources to enrich themselves and who have shown total contempt for the rule of law and for the people of Guyana.
Mr. Nadir and the PPP regime should focus their attention on the unsolved murders, high crime rates, massive corrupt practices, illegal narcotics and human trafficking, and torture that have engulfed the nation. Transparency International should be left alone to do its work without hindrance or interference from the PPP cabal. Guyanese need more watch dog organisations to monitor and report on the pervasiveness, venalities, and perverted activities of the PPP regime.
The PPP untouchables continue to believe that they can use their influence to remove Guyanese who disagree with them from international organisations. They cower to the World Bank which released Dr. Janet Bulkan for exposing some of their bogus claims on the LCDS and threatened the stability of CARICOM if Carl Greenidge was not terminated for criticising the regime in his eulogy of PNCR – MP Winston Murray. They succeeded in both institutions but the difference between the World Bank, CARICOM and TI is that Christopher Ram, Enrico Woolford and Keith Parks are not employed by TI, so it is not likely that they would be purged. The PPP cabal is behaving like babies and spoil brats.
What gives the PPP regime the right to dictate to TI as it did and continues to do to Guyanese? Mr. Nadir should purge the PPP of its kleptomaniacs and pedophiles and leave Christopher Ram, Enrico Woolford and Keith Parks alone. I urge the PPP to stop behaving like children and act like adults. Guyanese know that the PPP is the most incompetent, corrupt, and discriminatory regime in all of the Caribbean. It lacks credibility and respect and is viewed as the pan-handler of the Caribbean according to one of the region’s Prime Minister.
Asquith Rose

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