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The PPP operators are extremely dishonest people

Oct 01, 2013 Letters

 

Dear Editor,
I note with utter disgust an article in the independent media that was attributable to the Minister of Legal Affairs and captioned “PPP blames opposition for crime”.  What is clear is that the PPP operators are extremely dishonest people when it comes to their accountability and performance in the “fight against crime”.
The historical records will reveal that since the death of Monica Reece in 1993, Guyana has never been the same again; we are a nation at war with ourselves.  During this entire war, the hopelessly incompetent leadership from the PPP in the security sector has failed to offer any serious solutions.
Since the murder of Monica Reece, over nine (9) incidents of serious crime are reported per day and it all happened under an avalanche of failed PPP Ministers starting with Feroze Mohammed, Gail Teixeira, Ronald Gajraj and now the worst of this failed bunch – Clement Rohee.  Judge them on their record!
How dare Clement Rohee and his PPP reactionaries lecture the nation on the PPP’s failure to “confronting crime” by trying to pin the tail on people who do not have the executive authority over the crime-fighting machinery of the state? Do these PPP failures have any modicum of dignity to propagate such an “ugly untruth”?
The crime situation is so bad under the PPP that even the family members of many PPP big-wigs are paying US$1 million to become economic migrants to Canada and other countries. By their actions, are the family members of the PPP big-wigs telling the rest of the nation something?
Then there is that elementary Budget mistake that occurred in April 2013 where one of the opposition parties committed “political befuddlement” by claiming that the explanation given by the Minister was “sufficient” to provide them reason enough to vote G$1.1 billion to fund the Ministerial Secretariat of Clement Rohee. This “political befuddlement” must be contextualized against a background that only nine (9) months before that Budget vote in favour of Rohee, those same MPs of that political party raised their hands and voted for a “Motion of No-confidence against the said Rohee”.
This issue has bothered me for months and I continued to comfort myself that it was a political oversight even though one politician tried to bamboozle me with the excuse that “we cannot cut policemen’s salary” which is a deliberate attempt to confuse the facts. The truth remains the funds for the Ministerial Secretariat have nothing to do with the Guyana Police Force.
I trust we all will practice “politics of principle” in the 2014 Budget by sticking to the principle that the majority in the opposition has lost confidence in Mr. Rohee as the Minister of Home Affairs and thus his Secretariat cannot be funded.  For clarity sake, the Office of the Minister of Home Affairs (Ministerial
Secretariat) is distinct and separate from the Budget Line item for the Police and other Departments in the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Why are these opposition politicians prepared to prop-up Mr. Rohee with taxpayer funds although he continues to fail the parents of so many of our young people, and this is just a small sub-set of those cut down in the prime of their lives by the criminals – Arjune Narine (age 21) who was riddled with bullets at the corner of Drury Lane in May 2008; Luciana Bhagwandin (age 22) who was found dumped in a trench at Harlem on the West Coast; Shenese-Ann Richardson-Austin (age 25) who was murdered in her bed at the hands of bandits in West Ruimveldt; former St Stanislaus College student, Trevor Fung (age 18) who was stabbed to death by robbers on one Valentine’s night and the case that has rocked the nation – Seema Mangar, the former bank employee who was run over by someone who is allegedly very close to a PPP big fish.
There remain over 500 unsolved murders in Guyana since the death of Monica Reece in 1993.  With such a track record, the PPP leaders have no moral authority to lecture anyone.  All of it happened under their watch, but they were too busy plundering the Treasury to have any time to concern themselves with the most significant developmental retardant in the nation.
It is only a “political novice” who will not get it that Rohee is an absolute failure in the fight against crime and thus he should not be the beneficiary of any taxpayers’ funds once he continues to sit in that Chair in the Ministerial Secretariat at the Ministry of Home Affairs.
I rest my case.
Sasenarine Singh

 

 

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