The preconceived Speaker’s edict

Mar 02, 2013 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
The vexing issue of the Speaker’s ‘edict’ on the question of Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee, being denied his constitutional right to address Parliament, has now descended into a “comedy of errors”.
After the ‘no confidence vote’ against Rohee, carried by a majority of the House, three avenues were laid down as the way to resolve the matter:
1) The findings of the Commission of Inquiry into the Linden unrest;
2) The rulings of the Privileges Committee of the House, and
3) The judgement of the Chief Justice on the matter before him.
All and sundry have chosen to ignore this three-way path to unravelling the truth and have circumvented and subverted the process.
Principally among the transgressors are the Speaker by his “preconceived edict”; the PPP/C by now adopting the position that the ruling of the Privileges Committee on the matter is now not necessary; the AFC by adopting the least contentious route by declaring that they will abide by the Speaker’s edict and finally by the APNU who continue to spit fire and brimstone against the Speaker on the issue.
Out of Guyana, has emerged in print the only sensible suggestion as to the way out of this impasse, from the pen of the letter writer Mr Beni Rayman who stated that the Speaker’s edict should first have been debated in the House and then voted on before the edict can be adopted as the official position.
Incidentally, a prominent member of APNU and Member of Parliament has also outlined a similar position, but in addition, he has stated that the Speaker is not empowered under the constitution of Guyana to issue such edicts.
Above all else, if this edict is allowed to stand then Guyana and Guyanese will become, if they are not so already, the laughing stock of the world. But worse, a most indecent precedent must not be allowed, by the Speaker.
Prior to this printed position by Mr Rayman, several learned professors here in New York had enunciated a similar solution.
Now the 64 million dollar question is “What is the solution to the problem?
My two cents on that is simple. Two wrongs don’t make a right. All and sundry must resort back to the three ways as outlined above in this letter and await the conclusion of all three steps and then adopt an informed response to the vexing issue of Rohee being allowed or disallowed to speak in the House. The Linden Commission Report is now presented. We can afford a little more time (after all nothing of substance will be uttered by Rohee in the interim) to allow for this matter to be properly ventilated and the truth arrived at for a correct solution to be wisely adopted among all the “Wise People” sitting in the House.
In the meantime, the PPP/C will continue to have things their way by bullying, cajoling, skulduggery, shenanigans, innuendos, downright trickery, bribery and corruption etc. etc. While the nation is deciding to get set against the ruling PPP/C-Jagdeo Cabal, that clique is hell bent on trying to buy over opposition members to thwart the wishes of the people
At the end of it all, let’s see the eventual outcome of all of this?
Lionel Peters

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