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Kaieteur News should file a complaint with ACCA (England)

Oct 14, 2014 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
As the evidence mounts and becomes starker, it is critical that certain steps should be taken to not only protect Kaieteur News, but also to protect the very foundation of the fifth estate – the independent media – and the country at large in a nation swimming in elected totalitarianism.
Taxpayers and Guyana must be protected. Kurshid Sattaur is the head of an agency that he admitted in an affidavit collects an average of $125 billion in revenue from Guyanese yearly. The people and nation’s trust in Sattaur is not deflated any longer, it is completely gone.
Kaieteur News should file a complaint against Kurshid Sattaur directly with the ACCA in England. It should consider filing complaints with the governments of any countries in which Sattaur enjoys dual citizenship or dual residency with Guyana so that this evidence may be reviewed by these nations to see if there are breaches of their laws.
Kaieteur News should explain in its complaint against Sattaur; that these actions threaten the already restrained independent press, attack freedom of speech, infringe on the right of the citizen to enjoy legal protection of confidentiality with respect to their information, encourage thuggery using governmental resources, amount to abuse of power and malfeasance in exercise of public office, breach duty of care, exhibit bad faith, and intimidate the barely clinging freedom left in the elected dictatorship that is Guyana.
Actually, the argument could be made that ACCA members who operate in nations under the gun of dictatorial misconduct, incessant wrongdoing and a wilfully demolished rule of law, should operate at a higher standard in upholding the principles of that professional body, its rules, mandate and conduct requirements.
Indeed, the muzzling of one of Guyana’s most fearsome anti-government critics, Freddie Kissoon, by use of tax assessments is referenced, in what appears to be gleeful fashion, in an email allegedly written by Sattaur.  This evidence should be provided to ACCA and any countries in which Sattaur may enjoy dual citizenship or residency.
It must be noted that since 9-11, many developed countries have now widened the powers of the state to revoke residency and citizenship acquired by naturalization and to take action against its citizens and residents for actions it views as corrupt, wrongful and illegal committed elsewhere.
For example, many developed countries now have laws dealing with corruption by its citizens and residents abroad. In fact, given the refusal of the last two regimes (PNC and PPP) to take any action against the transgressions of their own and their creation of a failed state, where there is no prosecution of crimes by the majority of society, this is an angle the Guyanese people should pursue if they want to see action against the wrongdoers who enjoy foreign residency and citizenship in a developed nation.
Confidential reports should be made to countries where the elites of Guyanese society enjoy dual citizenship and residency. Revenue agencies like the IRS and the immigration departments of most developed nations have departments that treat this information with the strictest confidence. They will investigate and take action if evidence is found.
M. Maxwell

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