What is racist about the criticism of this excessive pension?

Mar 08, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Mr. Clement Rohee, General Secretary of the PPP, owes the proletariat and the peasantry of this country an apology. For him to conclude that the condemnation of the vulgar pension paid to Mr. Jagdeo is because of his race (KN March 3, 2015) is outrageous and disrespectful to the nation and to his own President. It was President Ramotar, then General Secretary, who promised to review the presidents’ pension package when he became president, which leads one to believe that there was some consternation within the PPP about the excessiveness of the pension. Is the PPP racist?
Nowhere else in the third world where information is available does a retired president receive such a pension package, no taxes, free electricity, free transportation, free telephone, free household help, free chauffeur, free uncapped medical and dental expenses and a pension that tops $36,000,000.00 per year. It is assumed that Prime Minister Hinds will also benefit from this package, but that is yet to be realized, as on today the only person benefiting is Mr. Jagdeo.What is racist about the criticism of this excessive pension?
The PPP as a party of proclaimed integrity should have addressed this issue as soon as Mr. Jagdeo had demitted office if they had feared confronting or embarrassing him. These self-serving abuses of the Treasury by the PPP government, which includes the unlawful spending of monies not approved by the National Assembly by Minister Ashni Singh and the loans from GCMC to the Ministry of Housing,isa blight on the country and affects people of every race. Two Elizabeth Harper’swould not be able to whitewash this abuse and to call it racist is an insult.
As the old Guyanese saying goes, the PPP has smelled the formaldehyde. They can see the end and like the drowning man, or woman, are trying to clutch at straws. Today the straw is that any talk of the President’s pension is racist, tomorrow it will be that any criticism of Mrs. Harper is discriminatory, and so it shall go.
Instead of trying to chase away the dark clouds that are forming over Freedom House, the PPP should be engaged in serious reflection; they must want to understand what got them here. As it is today, they stand as a profound embarrassment to Dr. Jagan’s legacy.
Keith Branch

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