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Guyana is an unhappy country
…wrestling against a Govt that has damaged it–Granger
– “The PPP has divided our nation. It offers favours to its favourites and but inflicts unbearable burdens on the masses”
By Kiana Wilburg
Opposition Leader, Brigadier David Granger said yesterday that the nation is wrestling against a
APNU+AFC Presidential Candidate, David Granger
presidency that has damaged the country through the denial of democracy. His comments came at the launching of the APNU+AFC election campaign at the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel.
He said that Guyana is fighting against a presidency which, for the last seven months, paralyzed the Parliament by the promulgation of the obnoxious prorogation order and for eighteen years has prevented the holding of local government elections.
“We wrestle against crime, corruption and cronyism,” the Opposition Leader added.
He then referred to a Biblical scripture, (Ephesians 6:12), which says, “…we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of the world; against spiritual wickedness in high places.”
Granger reminded that the two political parties joined forces because the nation is at breaking point. He said that Guyanese have been fatigued by two decades of fickle promises, fatuous platitudes and failed projects.
The politician said that the government has dragged the nation to the very pit of the human development index. He said that the record rates of arson, armed robbery, murders, suicides, road fatalities, illiteracy, unemployment, trafficking in persons and trafficking in narcotics have made the country a pariah state in this hemisphere.
“The PPP, worse still, has divided our nation. It offers favours to its favourites but inflicts unbearable burdens on the masses of housewives, public servants, working people, paddy farmers,
A section of the audience at the election campaign.
fisher folk and students,” said the Presidential candidate.
He said that the APNU-AFC coalition is the boldest step taken in six decades to replace political hostility with unity, confrontation with cooperation, and dictatorship with democracy. The coalition he said has chosen hope over despair and faith over fear.
Granger said, too, that the coalition will give Guyanese several things they deserve, among these being an education system that will produce citizens of quality who will be happy to remain and serve their country; employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mining, agro-processing and the arts to provide jobs and promote economic growth; and an empowerment policy that regularly renews local democracy by ensuring that Local Government Elections are held every 36 months – as is stipulated in the Constitution.
The APNU+AFC Presidential Candidate stressed that the opposition will not allow the PPP to squander Guyana’s inheritance. “We shall not surrender our God-given right to live in the best, biggest and most beautiful country in the Caribbean – Guyana,” he added.
Granger explained that the “Cummingsburg Accord,” therefore, is actually a public Covenant, a commitment to change the current political culture.
Life in Guyana, he said, could become more nasty and brutish for the majority, should the much needed change be stymied. The politician said that the truth is that the citizenry is weary. He said that the nation has had it with PPP’s winner-takes-all strategy for holding on to power at any cost; divide-and-rule tactics that provoke hatred and foster hostility; and its one-size-fits-all village policy that impoverishes the countryside and hinterland.
Granger expressed that the APNU+AFC coalition will adopt a unified approach and bring an end to cronyism at high levels (that is a drain on the country’s financial resources); crime and corruption in the law-enforcement and regulatory agencies in the mining and forestry sectors; and constitutional abuse by the President, Cabinet and executive branch of the government.
The historian said that he is happy to have at his side his ‘Corentyne colleague’ from Whim Village, Moses Nagamootoo. He described the Prime Ministerial candidate to be a committed campaigner who cares about the conditions under which ordinary people now live and work.
Granger added that the APNU and the AFC have worked together over the past three years and shall continue to collaborate for the good of the people of Guyana.
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