How could this gentleman be so hypocritical?

Sep 09, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,
Just a few months ago, I read in the letter columns of the dailies, a letter written by Ranwell Jordan, Former Mayor of Georgetown and captioned “The PPP/C wants to continue a family dynasty”, in which he was extremely critical of the list of candidates the PPP/C had put forward for the National and Regional Elections, opining that it had contained the names of family and friends.
He then went on to condemn Former President Romotar for allowing his children to be employed at the GGMC and with the E-Governance project. He further went on to say that Guyana was all about the PPP/C, their relatives and friends, and no one else; and that persons must not allow this to happen in Guyana; and that everyone must vote collectively and solidly against it.
Upon reading this letter, I thought of how morally erect this gentleman was and that here was someone who had no tolerance for nepotism or cronyism. Indeed, I was tempted to write a letter commending this gentleman and his ideals.
You could then imagine my horror when I visited City Hall to pay my uncle’s property taxes to discover that one of the staff members working in the Finance Department happened to be a daughter of Mr. Jordan. Wanting to be certain, I asked one of the tax clerks whether it was indeed his daughter, and the clerk not only confirmed this but advised me that this was at least the third time she was being employed at the Council. To my further dismay I learnt that she was not the only child to be employed there that she had a son holding a senior position at the Mechanical Workshop and many other relatives scattered among the various municipal department.
How could this gentleman be so hypocritical as to write to the press of this wrong doing when he is the biggest culprit.
Nadine Jerrick

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