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Mr. Rohee does not have the moral authority to admonish anyone on competence

Dec 28, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
The statement by the General Secretary of the PPP that GECOM should employ the most competent personnel on polling day is nothing but a red herring.  Mr. Rohee does not have the moral authority and should be the last person on the soil in Guyana to admonish GECOM or anyone else on the subject of competency.
Why his fellow ministers and comrades at Freedom House are not embarrassed by such foolish and infantile behavior is beyond us.  If there is any organization in Guyana that has mastered the art of recruiting grossly incompetent and unqualified personnel and placing square pegs in round holes, it is the Jagdeo/Ramotar administration with their Minister of Home Affairs being a paragon of gross incompetence.  If one is to look at the score sheet in the security sector since the PPP came to power in 1992, it was a situation of an incompetent leader in the Home Affairs Ministry under Feroze Mohammed, to a much more grossly incompetent leader under Gail Teixeira.
But the mother of all incompetent heads of the Home Affairs Ministry has been none other than the current inept Minister who seems to be an expert of putting his foot in his mouth every week but have no decency to accept that he is the biggest failure in the security sector in all of the English speaking Caribbean.
So, how dare he lecture GECOM about recruiting competent people when one of the biggest mistakes Dr. Jagan ever made in his life was to make him a Minister.
Crime, especially armed robbery, murders and drug-trafficking have increased fivefold under his tenure as the Minister of Home Affairs and the only thing this nincompoop has done is to blame the opposition. He has done absolutely nothing to reduce the high crime rate and ease the fear of the people.
So next time Rohee opens his mouth he must acknowledge that in 2004, a UK police team trained 100 members of the Tactical Services Unit to become the core of this country’s proposed Special Weapons and Tactics strike force. The President at that time personally met Baroness Valerie Amos in 2006 and agreed on a Statement of Principle, which became the basis for the security reforms to be conducted.
To date, none of the reforms has been implemented, which tells the people that the PPP cabal is not interested in addressing or solving the crime issue. We are now being told that there is a SWAT team, but from all appearances, they are not fully up and running and thus the criminals continue to run amok, terrorizing innocent families especially on the Corentyne coast with no tangible reaction from Mr. Rohee and his team.
So the facts are, there has been no shortage of reports and recommendations under Rohee’s watch on how to reduce crime, but he has taken very little action. The problem, clearly, has been one of gross incompetence and insincerity  on his part and thus he has no moral authority to lecturer anyone about the recruitment of competent people, least not the GECOM team since he personally is the symbol, essence and manifestation of what incompetence and an executive dunce are.
 Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

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