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WPA reiterates support for Presidential COI

Sep 05, 2017 News

The Working People Alliance (WPA) is optimistic that the Commission of Inquiry established by President Granger (COI) to look into land matters, will carry out an extensive study of the system and in the process of its review make recommendations that will right the numerous wrongs that have been committed against legitimate land holders and their heirs.
In a statement on the matter, the WPA, a component of the APNU /AFC Coalition, noted that the COI set up to address land issues in Guyana is long overdue.
“The WPA, which over the years of its existence has been very active, primarily through the efforts of Eusi Kwayana, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine and Desmond Trotman, is representing the interest of those persons who have been disempowered by unjust laws and the illegal actions of land grabbers.”
The importance that the Party has attached to land issues is demonstrated in the fact that in all of the manifestoes produced by the WPA or, in those produced by WPA in collaboration with other political forces, the issue of the establishment of a viable land commission has always had a prominent place in the proposals for governance in a new dispensation.
This practice was a systemic process that facilitated land grabbing in a manner not seen before in Guyana.
The Party said that under the last administration expropriation of private and public lands became the order of the day.
“Those persons with political connections in the power structure became the local land czars.”
Additionally, the WPA pointed out that it is this dangerous situation that the Presidential COI is seeking to address in a peaceful and just way.
As such, the Party called on the opposition PPP/C and leader Bharrat Jagdeo to desist from attempts to use the commission to seek to divide, Africans and Amerindians by portraying the COI as an instrument to take away lands from the Amerindians to give to Africans.
“WPA is not amused by these Machiavellian political tactics and we call on all patriotic and peace loving Guyanese to support the work of this Commission of Inquiry.”

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