Latest update September 18th, 2026 10:25 AM
Parliament must still review the Amaila Falls road project
Dear Editor,
If the PPP thinks this latest nasty act of chicanery will work, it will have another think coming. Let me be absolutely clear on the PPP’s cancellation of Fip Motilall’s epic travesty of a road to nowhere; it was done by the PPP in the hope that the APNU and AFC controlled Parliament would not proceed with the threatened review of the project.
They do not want cameras, lights and action splashed all over public TV when Fip Motilall starts spilling the beans in Parliament.
In my view, this act was an attempt by the PPP to cover up the monumental failures of this project. This act of terminating the project was done to attempt to prevent Parliamentary review of the project.
Fip Motilall has completed only nine kms of 161 kms of road. Kaieteur News states that Motilall has been paid US $8.5 million while Motilall claims it is US $5.8 million.
Regardless, this is a shocking amount paid to a man who has delivered nothing of value. APNU and the AFC cannot let this disaster rest.
They must hound the scoundrels associated with and sheltering under this deal. The Guyanese people need their money back and if the Parliament passes a motion following hearings that legal recourse must be taken to recover taxpayers’ money, the PPP government must comply.
APNU and the AFC must go on a witch hunt to recover the people’s money and to get answers on a wide range of scandals from the Hope Canal to Clico to the oil exploration contract granted exclusively to a neophyte entity called CGX.
Nothing less will be good enough. I expect the PPP to play this well-worn tune of cancelling suspect deals to avoid public carnage and exposure but the opposition-controlled Parliament must press on with the job at hand. For those PPP supporters swallowing the Kool-Aid in wholesale fashion and stating that this is evidence of a changed PPP, get a darn grip and get it fast.
The greatest hope from this fiasco is that as more of these scandals explode in the public domain, President Ramotar may finally get the guts to break free and clear from that shady shadow of Bharrat Jagdeo.
Right now, I see this Motilall mess as an attempt at a cover-up and there is only one guy who can benefit from the AFC and APNU deciding that this matter is no longer worth pursuing in Parliament. Any exposure of this deal will be a stunning indictment of the failed governance of Bharrat Jagdeo.
M. Maxwell
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