This will not blow over, ‘Honourable’ Joe Harmon

Apr 10, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
If Minister of State, the ‘Honourable’ Joseph Harmon believes that by running from explaining to the nation the repulsive reports of his relationship with Bai Shan Lin and Brian Tiwarie of BK International that the country’s outrage will blow over, then I have some uncomfortable truths to impart.
The ‘Honourable’ Harmon’s (and his behavior as a public official is anything but honourable) reported actions are not just damaging his reputation. It will and it is having a ripple effect. As the saying goes, one rotten apple spoils the whole barrel.
A large percentage of the nation believed in the ability of the coalition to root out corruption when they went to the polls in May 2015. Harmon was at the forefront of the party, campaigning and using the harshest terms to describe BaiShan Lin. The populace was with him, body and soul, back then.
Fast forward to today and what do we have? We have a politician who has metamorphosed into something ugly and unrecognizable. We have a politician who has become inundated with power and is now too cowardly to face the media and through them a nation scandalized by his reported actions.
Leaders throughout history have repeatedly turned a blind eye to the ordinary man’s feelings, to their detriment. Take a walk on the streets of Georgetown (it would seem Harmon can no longer do that with his head held high) and the nation is not as tempered as I am in writing.
There are mixed feelings. Feelings of confusion, hurt, betrayal and anger prevail. For years we have lived in a society where the previous PPP administration repeatedly turned a blind eye to the nation’s anger and committed one folly after another until they were booted ignominiously from power.
And these feelings are now extending to the government as a whole, as Harmon’s continued ducking taints his colleagues. The longer government remains mum on Harmon and his future as a Minister, the more rooted will be the perception that this government is soft and weak in dealing with corruption and things that are offensive in the eyes of any right thinking Guyanese.
Harmon’s actions on a whole are tainting the coalition and are giving the opposition more ammunition to use in order to attack this government.
Minister Harmon, kindly take a leaf out of the book of the UK’s Prime Minister, David Cameron and face the nation to explain your purported indiscretions.
Randy Talbot

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