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The PPP leaders have a lot of questions to answer
Dear Editor,
Let me state from the outset that I am not a “ghost writer” as those paid from public funds to fabricate letters and write in the social columns. I am trained and qualified journalist. It is hard to fathom how the likes of Dr. Frank Anthony, Gail Texiera, Clement Rohee and Bharrat Jagdeo have the temerity to be asking the Government to state how the Inauguration Ceremony was paid, if from Government funds or if there were gifts, who gave and how much. There are times you have to very careful what you ask for. I recall that for “years” Dr Anthony was asked for a statement of the expenditure for the last CARIFESTA held in Guyana. I do not recall that statement was ever produced. If it was, I do not recall seeing it, but at any rate if it was produced, it took years for it to be made public.
Again did Dr Anthony and Neil Kumar produce an account for the money and equipment from the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall? I am asking a question that I am entitled to. What about Kumar using the Sports Hall venue for a slaughter house for the goats. Did Texiera ever produce bills for the “million dollar” cell phone account? Again I am asking a question? It is true that the telephone company has an outlet for cigarettes?
I have just a few more questions for Rohee, Luncheon and Jagdeo. Did they, or have they paid the water and electricity bills for their residence? I stress a citizen is entitled to ask these questions. Was Jagdeo’s container gift from convict Ed declared? Of course he did not pay storage for the container at State House. Could anyone imagine that the State House lawns could be so desecrated? One last point, Mr. Editor. What about the umpteen questions you have been asking about the State funds used for the Marriott Hotel, the Berbice River Bridge and the payments received by the GPC for the still undelivered medical supplies?
Again Mr. Editor, if State funds were used for the Inauguration, So What? Dr. Anthony never had the ability to conceptualize such a magnificent historical event. The question who or where the funds to stage the event came from does not deserve an answer.Finally, I feel strongly that those foolish “press statements” and “press conferences” have become a nuisance and the newspaper is using valuable space which should be used to educate the public on matters of national interest.
Ian K. Haynes.
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