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This is a dirty document for liquid gold

Aug 19, 2017 Letters

Dear Editor,
It is very unlikely that the Granger administration will ever reveal the contract they negotiated with Exxon Mobile. And that is for one main reason; it is a dirty document. It was dirty when Jagdeo first negotiated it and it is dirty now that Mr. Granger has renegotiated it. Would the Guyanese public ever envisage the day when Jagdeo was able to point an accusative finger at Granger? Well that day has come. Thought it must not be taken lightly.
Jagdeo did not become corrupted over a little money. It would take billions to draw Jagdeo’s attention. However, with the advent of liquid gold, it seems that the current administration is now up for sale. And the Guyanese populace should not be very surprised. We saw that the money is what drew them into Government and so the doubled their salaries weeks after. And now it will be money that will keep them in Government. This was true of the PPP government whom the voters rejected and it is now very true of the Coalition government. Neither the PPP nor the APNU/AFC politicians will leave office short of becoming billionaires with monies they cannot account for.
And what is hurtful, not just to me but even for those who once supported this coalition, is that these guys ran and won not just the elections, but the confidence of the Guyanese people, on a platform of honesty and transparency. It has long been the United Republican Party’s (URP) stand that the current coalition would not have amounted to anything much different from the PPP government. That is because they are all cut from the same power-hungry, greedy, cloth.
Exxon Mobile is a cooperation that is prone to corruption and that is not just my opinion. Even as Rex Tillerson – the past President of the Company – was being vetted for his current position as Secretary of State, in the US, he was questioned by several Senators about the corrupt and environmentally unfriendly practices of the Exxon Corporation he once headed. If you were to go and look at those questionings, you would find that Tillerson avoided may of the questions, even remarking at one point that he does not know of the activities because he is not the head any more. (He still receives an exorbitant pension from the company).
One of the wicked practices of Exxon Mobile is for them to use their experience to dictate corrupt contracts to beleaguered governments then pay off vulnerable, unpatriotic, greedy politicians. This then locks-in the countries into international legal commitments and gives Exxon unfettered access with the oil reserves that rightly belong to the people of the country. In short order, the folks who signed off on those wicked contracts, become enormously wealthy and the countries and their people are left locked in civil war and stark poverty. If we can march to stop the irregularities of the parking meters, which would only have affected those who traverse Georgetown, for the love of God, we can march against the financial destruction of the entire country. Can we do it? Yes we can!
Dr. Vishnu Bandhu
Leader, URP

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