The PPP regime is the most corrupt in the English Caribbean

Dec 31, 2014 Letters

Dear Editor,
The people and everyone in the government know that corruption is becoming more pervasive and embedded in the social and institutional fabric of the country. Notwithstanding the promise made during the 2011 election campaign by Mr. Ramotar to deal unequivocally with the problem wherever it reared its head, the impression we get is that the social disease continues to flourish unchecked.
There is a national scramble by some in the regime to acquire quick wealth. In their desire to do so, they have compromised their principles. They award contracts to friends for kick-backs and this has resulted in a culture in the PPP that accepts corruption as the norm.
The outcome is that every facet of the fabric of the country’s national life seems to be tattered by corrupt practices which has spread to every level of the government from Ministers right down to the clerks. Allegations of impropriety in public office are rife and a general sense of lawlessness prevails in the PPP regime.
There are several questions that the President needs to answer urgently: Why has he broken his promise to the people to reduce corruption as he promised in the 2011 election campaign? Why does he continue to allow corruption to continue on a grand scale? Is it that he has been ordered by the Jagdeoites not to do anything about corruption?
Although the media, especially Kaieteur News, have brought civil society into the maw of corruption more readily than was the case before, yet the President has failed to act. The media are indeed more inquisitorial, but corruption has become too blatant for the media to ignore. In their propaganda stunt, the leadership of the PPP has asserted that there is a great deal less corruption than what the media and the opposition claim exist. But they cannot fool the people with their distortions and untruths.
Among the sharpest opposition critics of corrupt practices by the minority PPP regime are Khemraj Ramjattan and Moses Nagamootoo of the AFC—two former members of the PPP and Joe Harmon and Carl Greenidge of APNU. To quote Mr. Ramjattan: “The PPP Government is perceived as the most corrupt and immoral ever in the Caribbean.”
The PPP cabal is perceived as corrupt, vulgar, reckless, and deceitful and primitive in thinking. Ministers lack integrity and decorum and while the promise by the minority PPP regime that all would rise (which was not genuinely intended), the reality is that only the corrupt gang at Freedom House is rising because they continue to use the state resources to enrich themselves while the poor and the working class are rapidly sinking.
Loyalty to the PPP and the regime refusal to take legal action or disciplinary measures against alleged corrupt PPP officials are the main factors responsible for the widespread growth of the corruption phenomenon.
By not having the Procurement Commission and other checks and balances in place have made it much easier for government officials to take bribes on a grand scale.
Yet another silly propaganda the PPP has used to distort the truth and minimize its corrupt practices is the belief that there is no more corruption now than was evident when the PNC was in office and that supporters of the PNC and the PPP merely see each other’s behavior differently.
But no propaganda can minimize the fact or stifle the truth that the PPP regime is corrupt to the hilt. Even supporters of the PPP have acknowledged that more corruption is taking place today than ever before and only a few in the ruling cabal are the principal beneficiaries of the state generated patronage.
The widely held view among the people is that corruption is much worse now than it ever has been, and that the PPP cabal is taking full advantage of the state resources and other opportunities available as their entitlement.
Asquith Rose and Harish Singh

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