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This alliance has to work

Feb 16, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
I was one of the fiercest supporters of an AFC-led Broad Based Alliance (BBA) as explained by AFC Leader, Khemraj Ramjattan. In this regards, the terms of the recent Cummingsburg Accord has caused me some anxiety. However, after much consideration, this Accord, in its current construct, still emerges as a superior option than another term with Ramotar and Rohee.
I continue to have absolute faith in Ramjattan as a principled politician whose only motivation has been the return to a path of social justice with economic empowerment for all. We all can learn from Ramjattan. I have known him for years and he has always placed the welfare of the people before his personal ambitions. I believe he has played this innings as best as he possibly could on a very sticky wicket for the team and the people of Guyana. Going it alone is not an option at this point. It could mean five more years of the PPP corruption, crookedness and cronyism.  If an APNU-led BBA can achieve the positive changes we all seek, then the choice is clear.
When all the cameras are gone, every single Guyanese, like me, will have to level with our conscious in our private space and battle our fears because come tomorrow, we have to walk out that door and embrace the future.  This alliance has to work!
When black South Africans made the honorable compromise and embraced white South Africans who oppressed them for years inside the Mandela cabinet they did it for the country. As an outcome of those interactions, understanding rather than racial fear won the day. Shouldn’t we in Guyana have the same dreams and ambitions?
This is not to say there are no political risks. But what are the alternatives? More unauthorized spending by the Ministry of Finance? More rampant PPP-driven corruption? More poverty for the working class?
Any rational mind has to be fully aware that this entire construct can unravel to the detriment and destruction of the AFC.  But it is better to die on your feet than live on your knees under the unscrupulous and vindictive Jagdeo/Ramotar/Rohee cabal.
The important challenge ahead is to market this Cummingsburg Accord to a nation divided by ethnic fears and brainwashed by their opportunistic political ancestors over the past 50 years, some of whom are still around on both side.
But all in the BBA must now tell these dinosaurs; we need a break from the racial politics of the past. The Guyanese people have been misled for too long but we cannot give up hope.  This BBA is yet another opportunity to try something different to achieve a different outcome.
Everyone needs to appreciate the leap of faith taken by the AFC. The objective is the banishment of African and Indian hegemony as practiced over the last 50 years in Guyana. It is time for the “all hands-on-deck” approach to mobilize and mould the nation to emancipate itself from its racist past. Can we do it?  YES WE CAN!
History will always remember men like Ramjattan who made the ultimate sacrifice to bring betterment for the people.  Even under false attack and being called names like “PPP-lite” to “Indian racist” by lesser men, today Ramjattan stands vindicated as those lesser men bow their head in shame for gravely misjudging this Guyanese patriot who has again placed country first.
My name is Sase Singh and I endorse the decision of the AFC to join an APNU-led Broad Based Alliance.
Sase Singh

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