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Sam Hinds puts conditions on cooperation with government
Dear Editor,
In its second paragraph of its editorial on Tuesday, January 5, 2016 Kaieteur News puts explicitly a belief that is untrue but which seems to prevail amongst members and supporters of the Coalition Government:-
“The current forensic audit reports which revealed that billions of dollars were either embezzled or cannot be accounted for are proof of this.”
This is a totally inaccurate and malicious summary of the forensic audit reports. The forensic audit reports make charges against the purposes for which and the manner in which money was spent. For example, there has been the charge of selling out state properties to complete the construction of the Marriot. These funds were neither embezzled nor unaccounted for. For the record we of the PPP/C maintain that what we did was within the law and the purpose, in our judgment, for the benefit of people and country. Recall the early charges of moneys in private accounts, private banks – they proved to be spurious charges. The private accounts were held in the names of their respective agencies and recorded in the agencies books – no problems whatsoever.
The belief put explicitly in that second paragraph is inaccurate, untrue and is a great and painful injustice to us citizens of Guyana who constitute and support the PPP/C, and as well the Officers and other employees of the various agencies concerned. I cannot believe that no one else, not even one of our fellow citizens, cares. But it is not only we of the PPP/C who should be urging accuracy – the coalition in office should also see the need to urge an accurate representation of what the forensic audits report. We of the PPP/C with such grave unfounded and unjust charges on our backs would be hard to put to cooperate with this governing coalition without sacrificing our pride and that is too much to ask of us.
And the Coalition itself runs the dangers that any accommodation acceptable to us of the PPP/C would be seen to their supporters as a sellout. One may already perceive some indication of this in sentiments that were expressed in the media in early December which was succeeded by the aggressive, humiliating treatment of the heads of PU/NICIL and GRA, which has already generated excess with sad consequences. Substance would be given to the offers of olive branches and our President’s call for “togetherness” in this year of our fiftieth anniversary of Independence, once such false and unjust charges about us of the PPP/C, were jettisoned.
Samuel A.A Hinds
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