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Who is speaking the truth – Minister Ramsammy or Dr. Luncheon?

Dec 04, 2013 Letters

 

 
Dear Editor,
The headline booms out – Minister Ramsammy says pumps are here, Dr. Luncheon says no?  Who really is speaking the truth? First of all, we want to make it very clear to all and sundry that the Minister’s checkered past leaves us no doubt  but to believe Dr. Luncheon and not Mr. Ramsammy.
If one were to observe the empirical evidence that evidence would reveal that in a New York Federal Court Room in 2009, Minister Ramsammy was identified as the alleged purchaser of cellular interception equipment on behalf of the Government of Guyana after firm evidence was submitted to the court.  However, when asked about his signature on a letter authorizing the purchase, Minister Ramsammy told Stabroek News in 2009 “No, I did not” sign those documents. He went on to say, “That is all I am willing to say.”
The records revealed that he tried his very best to bury history and has not to date cleared his name.
The evidence still remains in place to support the facts that Minister Ramsammy quite conveniently refused to acknowledge his own signature.
When a Minister can doubt his own signature and yet remain in cabinet to conduct the people’s business shows how corrupt and unethical the PPP regime is. How can the Minister doubt his own signature? If he does not know, we are telling him that that the President knows that he is a crook but is only tolerating him for the time being.
The Minister has no credibility left. It also goes to show that we have a President who is clearly not in charge and who does not know what to do. If he does, he would have fired both ministers.
Now today this Minister tells us that all the Surendra Pumps that were paid for since 2011 are in Guyana, while Dr. Luncheon says,  NO this is not the case?  Who should the people believe? We say Dr. Luncheon and not the minister.
Minister Ramsammy, you are busted for the second time. You should resign and bow out of politics before it becomes more disgraceful for you or before you are fired. Dr. Luncheon has already given you your dismissal warning notice, take it and run before the cabinet reshuffle takes place.
However, this relationship with Surrendra Engineering and some of the corrupt ones in the regime brings out a much bigger issue that clearly exposes another example of how the PPP is transferring the wealth from the Treasury to the pockets of friends and political sponsors.
According to the Auditor General Report on the Public Debt, the people of Guyana had to pay $38 million in interest in 2012 for this $808 million loan from India to procure these pumps.  However, this money was passed on to Surrendra Engineering who had all this cash at their disposal for two full years. The company has not paid one cent in interest to the people of Guyana.  This is a clear act of lending Surrendra Engineering an interest free loan of $808 million for two years while the people have to pay the Government of India $38 million a year in interest.
This is another example of wanton squander-mania of the state resources by the PPP.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

 

 

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