Charges must follow the audit findings

Jun 22, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,

The audits are damning, aren’t they? They confirm the worst suspicions and embedded fears of those who cared and dared to articulate these under the banner of corruption run amok.
What is coming to light with increasing frequency is a culture of cronyism, and a mentality of invincibility that stoked reckless abandon, and the resulting grand free-for-all. The numbers do not lie; nor do the cabal of conspirators now exposed by the revealing paper trails. There are no tolerances for any vapid counterclaims of inaccuracy or witch hunts. Instead, the financial witchcraft of bureaucratic and political sorcerers resonates with the incriminating incantations of those who treated government business and taxpayers dollars like a personal piggy bank. It was a piggy bank to be dispensed with whimsically and arbitrarily to family and friends; and to scorn such mundane responsibilities as billing and collecting, even at a cut rate. The favored circles had a long joyful bacchanal.
Now it is time for the pulverizing hangover, a Guyanese Bush-rum Sunrise for the partygoers. They should have their day in court. They must, also, have their years in orange jumpsuits to reflect on the road traveled, the trust betrayed, and the squander-mania in which they participated so willingly and lovingly. Nobody has been jailed before in this country for financial chicanery practiced under governance transformed into sickening repugnance. That must be the past.
Let those fingered and named be the precedents. Let them be made into warning examples. Though there is a preference for the ancient ways of skulls bared on pikes along busy thoroughfares, a decade or more to ponder and absorb the pristine beauty of the hinterlands (Mazaruni) is acceptable.
Every single one of the alleged perpetrators ought to be brought forward, bejeweled in steel, to face the music. The once private dancers must now cavort in public, and give Guyanese their best rendition of ‘backballin.’ The government is responsible for orchestrating and delivering. Do not disappoint.
GHK Lall

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