PPP has an agenda that is about destroying Guyana’s future

Apr 07, 2017 Letters

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Dear Editor,
It is with great concern that I am penning this letter because of what I have heard and read about during the years when the PPP were in opposition before 1992 elections. During my campaign in 2015, I was asked by a businessman of Rosignol to sit and listen to what will transpire after the elections or when the APNU+AFC gained power. Let me state that the businessman said to me he has no political connections or affiliation to any party.
The businessman took over 40 minutes to explain in a nutshell the hardships and the economic downfall of the country when the PNC was in power. He told me the reasons as to why the hardship and economic downfall happened. Moreover, he swore that after 2015 elections if the PPP failed to gain power the same will repeat as in those years. He said the country will be plunged into a state of slow economic development and investors will be asked to stay away. He also mentioned that the opposition will use every tool available to ensure that the period, 1960-1987 return.
He further went on to state that in those years the PPP crippled the country because of racism and the economic power house was generated from mainly one race or sector of people in Guyana. He mentioned the bottom house meetings that the PPP would host and ask the sugar workers and rice farmers to stop working and planting. Sugar workers was used in those days to sabotage the sugar industry, calling unwanted strikes, burning of canfields, business men to stop investing, etc. He said that the PPP used the race card and its people as the tool in making this country an underdeveloped country and soon it will happen. Well, I can now say that the businessman was well on track and knows his country and its politicians. Indeed history will bring the tears of those years back to the elders’ memory and make us as young ones learn. So that we do not repeat such a great mistake again. It is very evident today that the PPP has an agenda to ensure that Guyana once again becomes a poor nation. But this time they will fail and fail tremendously.
Over the past few months or year we saw the opposition making some very wild statements about Guyana’s economy. But let me state that indeed the economy is slower now than when the PPP was in power. That is because the DEA is now active in Guyana under the APNU+AFC government and lots of the monies that used to circulate in the drug trade that pushed the economy up, is no more. Look at the amount of drugs (cocaine) being found on a weekly basis since this government took office. Look at some of the mega businesses that have closed their doors since the DEA came and let’s look at the reason(s) why they had to stop doing business?
The PPP is not interested in Guyana’s development, but in the oil money. They wanted to build more Pradovilles, beach\pool houses, etc. They wanted to see Guyana down on the ground in the economic sector and that there must not be any development. That is why the leader of the opposition and his cabals are running and jumping around lying to the Guyanese people. They are going to the sugar workers and telling them that sugar has a future and that this government doesn’t want sugar to stay. Well, the sugar workers must understand that sugar is in crisis all over the world not here alone. PPP and GAWU are asking the workers to strike every week so that they cannot make a day’s pay. I am also made to understand that some of the management at the various estates that are affiliated to the PPP are sabotaging the entire process of those estates. Only last week I was told that some 450 bags of sugar that were stolen have been found in a well known compound at Blairmont.
Sugar workers must understand that the PPP is using them to gain political clout to make the industry worse. If the PPP is so interested in the welfare of the sugar workers, why is it that they took away several benefits, misplaced NIS contributions and closed estates? The opposition is telling the rice farmers to stop planting. But the opposition is not saying, who will feed the family of the rice farmers? Who will take care of their needs and livelihoods?
I do believe that every rice farmer is making a profit when the crop ends and if anyone says to me they are not then they are lying. The PPP should look at the rice industry worldwide and then talk to the farmers. Don’t talk because you want to stagger the rice industry or should I say cripple it. The PPP and its leaders including its GS over the past months are going around telling people of the hardship of this country. But they are not telling the people where they normally socialize especially in the fancy restaurants, bars, etc. The GS and his party leaders are not telling the people about the number of children they have living and studying overseas that are being funded by them (PPP leaders).
The PPP is going to the people who are said to be the economic powerhouses of this land, telling them that things are getting real bad and they need to close their businesses down, stop working and stop planting rice, stop making a better living and let’s tear Guyana’s future apart. They (PPP) feel by doing this, it will help them return to power. But what they are actually doing is telling those people who they truly believe are their supporters to wreck the country for our (PPP cabals) political gains.
They (PPP) are using you (sugar workers, businessmen, rice farmers, youths and all others) to ensure that their personal agendas are met. They want the people to suffer and cry to have a meal. The PPP is back to its agenda of decades ago and the businessman from Rosignol is correct in saying that the PPP will fool their supporters, who are said to be the economic powerhouses of the land, in order to bring Guyana down once again. They will use the working class to better themselves and gain political points.
But long gone are the days when workers will burn the cane fields, destroy their rice crops, starve their families for PPP politicians and more over be made political footballs. The PPP if interested must come to the floor and join hands in making Guyana a better place and stop inciting racism and economic shutdown. If the PPP cabals truly love Guyana they will work with the government in ensuring that Guyana rises to the occasion as we welcome oil finds that will enable all Guyanese to be better. The APNU+AFC Government must now brace itself for what can be a worse case scenario in the business and working sectors as the PPP leaders are going around spreading hatred and urging businesses to stop their operations. I urge the citizens of this land of ours to look deep into the hearts of the PPP and realize what they are fighting for and what they want. For sure they are not fighting for the people’s betterment but for their personal betterment and gains.
Abel Seetaram
APNU+AFC
Regional Councilor
Region 5

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