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Accusations against Irfan Ali’s ministerial performance

Aug 25, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Kaieteur News August 24 article on GWI fallout relating to hiring of an apparently unqualified drug dealer and Irfan Ali’s contribution, requires a response. What international HR department is Ali comparing GWI HR department to? It must be to that of a mafia organisation that goes along with what the head of such an organisation dictates. The HR departments in all the public agencies in Guyana operated in an unprofessional way over the last 50 years. The PPP were too afraid or incompetent to recognise and solve this problem. The PPP supporters suffered and suffer immensely due to this. The PPP supporters know this. The PPP is callous and just do not care; that is why it lost the last two elections.
Irfan Ali is attempting to defend his turf since he was the minister responsible for water under the last two PPP administrations. It is this act among so many others that the PPP must cut Irfan Ali loose if it wants to win another election. If not I encourage PPP supporters to walk away and condition themselves to years of hardship and discrimination. PPP supporters know what I am talking about. Many of you have been to Irfan Ali and were treated with contempt. Spread the word in your communities not to vote while Irfan Ali remains a hindrance to the PPP. Irfan Ali is clueless on what transpired within GWI because he was not concerned and he appointed persons to the board that were totally unsuited and incompetent when it comes to overseeing managing a utility.
The GWI HR department must be an unprofessional department like the others. Release the Internal Audit report on the HR department over the last 5 years. Ali must have copies for 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014. GWI must publish the staff composition and let the public know the personnel composition of the various departments and units with GWI. Publish the ethnic composition of permanent staff hired over the last 5 years. Then let the public determine if the hiring practices are fair. Do this over the last 5 years of all staff inclusive of the last 16 months of the current PNC administration.
Perhaps it is now time for a forensic audit of all public sector HR departments? This would provide a benchmark for one of the indicators to measure whether Granger’s social cohesion minister is effective. It would help to guide Granger’s social cohesion policy unless as it is all just fluff and rhetoric? BTW; what are the policies of the Social Cohesion ministry?
This whole country is managed as one big cake shop over the last 50 years. It is all about buying and selling only. Things are done in a clueless way. Right or wrong it is just being done. It is a vicious circle. The AFC is a big disappointment. It has demonstrated that it is not capable of the high level thinking it portrayed itself to be. Ramjattan assured us he will vote against the PNC if they do wrong things. What is happening now? Perhaps it is time to do this and only then the AFC can appeal to all racial groups to support you to bring about unity, transparency and good governance which this country desperately needs. Make Nigel Hughes the Presidential Candidate when you do this.
H. Singh

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