Poor people are being used as scapegoats

Apr 02, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
A GPL customer’s normal bill is around twelve thousand dollars ($12,000) a month and if he/she decided to steal current (they would most likely to commit the crime in the nights and weekends), it would likely reduce their bill to approximately to six thousand dollars ($6,000). At the end of the year that would be around seventy-two thousand dollars ($72,000) the consumer will save and GPL will lose.
The amount of people involved and the total losses is huge, but with the extremely high cost per kilowatt and cost of living, most people have no option. What is ironic is at the most recent GPL press conference, the Prime Minister Sam Hinds and Board Chairman Winston Brassington, lamented the slothful pace in prosecuting those who got caught and I started to wonder if this Government is only bent on prosecuting the poor and helpless, because majority of people who got caught are poor people and those who GPL didn’t provide power to. Added to that they are contemplating putting a even higher fee for new connections.
What is sickening is that this Government gave Fip Motilall billions of our dollars for incomplete work; they have all the evidence from the NCN scandal, yet we are still waiting for any charges; the report about corruption related to the NDIA has been presented to higher authorities and no action, and the list goes on.
For the past 21 years in Guyana we have been hearing about and seeing the evidence of corruption involving billions of dollars and no one is being held accountable, but we are hearing how the system is slow in prosecuting poor persons!
For the past 21 years, the majority of infrastructure built by this Government is broken up and most of them built under the PNC is still there. The PNC ruled this country for 28 years and the majority of roads standing today were built by them. Sadly, many of those roads are being destroyed and inferior roads are being rebuilt, especially in villages.
When are we to hear of a contractor being hauled in front of the court or having to repay monies for his inferior work? That is another issue. Meanwhile, the majority of the frontpage headlines from the two main independent newspapers (Kaieteur News and Stabroek News) are about corruption involving members of the PPP/C and their friends, and they are not being charged, or some lame excuses are being made for their actions, but we are hearing about the sloppy service in prosecuting poor people in Guyana.
Sahadeo Bates

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