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Has the Coalition Gov’t retained Jagdeoites?
Dear Editor,
I have seen in the media where Dr. Jagdeo was addressing the sugar workers in Wales, misleading the people that the Coalition is deliberately creating hardships for the PPP supporters. This is far from the truth. How can a human being publicly be so boldfaced to assign the blame to others of an industry he destroyed, he did not maintain the infrastructure, did not provide training and competent management and he knows that the world price is a contributing factor. Is this about power, by a man who is branded as extremely corrupt? There are so many negatives about politicians, how shameless and godless can people be?
Again, a few weeks ago he was accusing this new government about corruption. I do not doubt him, but I Joe Persaud to hear it from Dr Jagdeo made me numb, how evil can a person be. As dem boys say, he was part of the PNC infrastructure of corruption prior to 1992, which he retained when the PPP took office. He made the present Finance Minister, Budget advisor etc. Programs/projects when budgeted can be inflated to reflect inducements. And now the same team is retained by the Coalition.
The public brought to my attention the following: We are not seeing projects cost reduced with the new government; the speciality hospital was not tendered; the airport modifications retained the same allegedly corrupt contractor. And we were lead to believe that the US $225 million was reduced to US $ 150M, a reduction of US $ 75M out of US $ 225M; this is not practical.
An engineer who was authenticating cost for the PPP is retained. The last 2 modules of IFMAS was not used by the PPP to hide accountability and transparency and this government said it has glitches and low and behold, 65% of $132m has to be paid to upgrade a system that was partially used and glitches on 2 modules that was not used. The coalition may very well proceed with all the inflated PPP projects this is why the ministry of Finance staff is retained/promoted.
If the Finance Minister is going to conduct forensic audit at his ministry, who will conduct forensic audit on him since he was part of Jagdeo team; the diaspora thinks that this government would not hire them, because they do not want people of integrity.
They know the locals that do not have integrity; PNC had square pegs in round holes. PPP had round pegs in square holes and now the coalition has square pegs in round holes, back to square one. Dr Jagdeo knows what he is talking about, when he speaks of corruption, so Mr. Editor, can he enlighten us on the above public concerns. My friend a retired general from the Indian army, said to me,”Ramjeetsing, Baljeetsingh, Karamjeetsing is the same Jeet Singh.” So it does not matter which goverment is in power. It is the same game.
Joe Persaud (Canada)
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