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It is not about witch-hunting

Jun 08, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
As an avid reader of your newspaper, I would be very grateful for the opportunity afforded to make a contribution in your letter column. I do commend the APNU/AFC coalition team, supporters and all who voted which enabled the downfall of the PPP/C regime at the 2015 elections.
The voices of the people have spoken loud and clear and have given the mandate to President David Granger and team to bring about decency to a depraved form of governance practiced by the PPP/C.
We the majority of the electorate have fired the PPP/C president and all his cabinet ministers who would have abused their offices in an arrogant and callous manner. Indeed it is now time to fire all those Heads of Departments and their cronies who also would have abused their positions to further their personal aggrandizement, to incestuously promote the interest of family, friends and their associates.
It is not about witch-hunting but the prerequisite for good governance requires that it is important to eradicate malignant officials who gleefully used their offices as a destructive weapon in a reprehensible and evil manner upon the innocent thus causing untold terror, hardship and sufferings to many.
These individuals were allowed to unleash their unbridled authority to abuse, victimize, marginalize, discriminate and dismiss workers in an arbitrary, unilateral and illegitimate manner without due process and regard for the victims’ well-being and welfare.
They never took into consideration that the aggrieved persons have family and other financial commitments too before putting them on the breadline. They were also culpable of using their offices to target and persecute individuals who were not in their favour in a selective, prejudicial, vindictive and unjustifiable manner whilst at the same time allowed persons to cheat the system.
The people have finally awakened from their deep slumber and are now demanding fairness, justice, accountability and transparency. Yes!!! God never sleeps. The voice of the people is indeed the voice of God.
I would like to highlight the trend of high- handedness, bureaucracy and autocracy at the top of the ladder at the GRA. Recently, a female staff stationed in the Tax Exemption and Verification Unit of the Guyana Revenue Authority was transferred forthwith because she rightly inquired about a signature on a CG Letter, since that signature differed from the usual signature and no circular was issued to inform staff of such a change.
These violations, abuse and infringements upon workers rights are pervasive and widespread with no recourse for justice since these officials have ultimate authority and dictate to their subordinates what decisions to take.
The method of administration is well known where they use vile threats to intimidate staff into fear and subservience and bullied into compliance. Depraved and unlawful policies and hidden perverted agendas are fostered upon staff under duress.
I am deeply concerned that certain officials whose annual income is approximately twenty four million dollars annually ($24,000,000.00) do not pay income tax on their salaries yet they hound down the masses to pay from their hard earned salaries. This is not only paradoxical but a clear case of double standards, hypocrisy, discriminatory and ‘chastism’. It is time that those earning super salaries contribute their rightful share to the national coffers.
To compound matters, whenever there is a salary increase by the Government, these super salaried workers derive the most benefits and account for a large slice of the payout. This is definitely unfair, burdensome and untenable. This policy should be reviewed whereby there should be a wage freeze for certain categories of workers based upon their super salaries.
J. Ward

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