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Apr 25, 2018 Letters
DEAR EDITOR,
What is “political” when former government officials are found to have been participants in activities amounting to criminal misdemeanor, accused of doing so after detailed investigations by specialized agencies, charged and placed before the court?
Still further, what is “political” when there is well-documented audit evidence of criminal plunder of state assets of various types, by the friends and cronies of the former Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government, some of whom have already gone before the courts, and others under intense investigation by specialized agencies of the State?
The continuous “mouthings” of opposition leader, Bharat Jagdeo, would have us believe that such persons had the right to do what they did, because they are members of his party, or former government, or friends or cronies.
It means that he has set a new interpretation for acts of illegalities, with the understanding that its perpetrators are in fact above the law, and must not be prosecuted. Hitherto, this is a new standard set for social morality.
How else can such be interpreted; given the many incessant statements about “witch hunting”, which is really a denial of alleged criminal conduct on the part of his pals, who are now accused before the courts? How Jagdeo continues to insult our intelligence!
The nation would have therefore experienced the results of such governance, in terms of what it had meant as an instrument for plunder of state assets. This is what we have had for the tenure of PPP/C over lordship.
No succeeding, responsible Government, as the Coalition is, must ignore this unconscionable monstrosity that has been exacted on this country and its people. Its response must continue to be intense, in its pursuit of those who treated the nation’s money, as their personal ATMs.
Editor, this is not about political witch hunting; this is about the pursuit of personalities, identified as a huge category of former state officials, friends, and cronies of the Jagdeo administration who rapaciously enriched themselves, illicitly, with the labours of Guyanese tax payers, inclusive of the former sugar workers. They must be pursued and be prosecuted.
Regards
Earl Hamilton
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