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The PPP does not care to see anything, which is why the law must help them to see

Oct 17, 2015 Letters

Dear Editor,    
Dr. Nanda K. Gopaul “sees nothing wrong”( KN 16 October 2015)  with members of a State Cabinet taking decisions to appropriate State property,  instructing state officials to use taxpayers money to develop the said property,  and then distribute the developed property among themselves.  He is PPP, and the PPP does not care to see anything, which is why the law must help them to see.
Dr. Gopaul most likely did not also see anything wrong with the PPP persecuting  certain senior officers from the New Building Society, when those officers refused to go beyond a certain point with that organisation’s finances. Recall that the PPP sought access to NBS’s resources  to inject into the Berbice River Bridge project.  He was involved in that matter. He probably also saw nothing wrong with the suppression of democracy in Guyana, through the subversion of Local Government Elections for 20 years by the PPP.
Former President Donald Remoter adopted the same posture. He saw  “nothing wrong” with the Red House deal ( KN 6 September 2015). Former Prime Minister Sam Hinds saw nothing wrong (KN of 3 September 2015) with the Berbice Bridge Scheme.
This may be part of the political culture within, and problem with the PPP. There is apparently a sizeable gap in misunderstanding of the purpose of Government, and the use of governmental authority  and political power in relation to state property.  Imagine the President of the USA or the Prime Minister of Britain doing what the PPP did ( develop a high class housing project using state land and taxpayers money, to benefit the head of state and Cabinet Ministers).  They would probably not survive a month, much less five years. They are not insane enough to do such a thing anyway.
Finally, Mr. Editor, what does a legal case against former government officials have to do with Dr. Gopaul’s veiled threat, that such action will “create further division in our Society”?. What is the purpose of this threat, to paralyse the APNU-AFC with fear of taking legal action?. If the APNU-AFC succumbs to such empty threats, it will be seen as a truly feckless government. The same kind of threat was made by other PPP spokespersons when PPP political appointees were removed from office, after 11 May 2015,  for wrongdoing. The PPP viewed the APNU and AFC as feckless, while they were the opposition, and mistreated them as such.
Is Dr. Gopaul’s reasoning that Government officials are free to do whatever they want while in office, and since nothing is wrong with what they do that is the end of the matter?. If legal action is taken, such action is conflated with creating divisions in society?.  It would appear that none of the PPP’s decisions, behaviors and actions during the past 23 years has caused any divisions in society, but legal action against former PPP governmental officials will cause division. Such rubbish.
Guyana is evidently a unique story when it comes to governance. One thought that one understood the meaning of the words insanity and blindness. However, it seems that in Guyana any interpretation is possible, and men have long lost their reason.
Fortunately, the electorate of Guyana are not as blind. They saw what Dr. Gopaul and his PPP could not see, and as a result they evicted the PPP from office.  One is almost certain that in opposition Dr. Gopaul will see the same things very clearly.
Ivor  Carryl

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