A DESPERATE CALL TO PRESIDENT MR. DAVID GRANGER

Jul 27, 2018 Letters

Dear, Editor,
Please permit me a spot in your newspaper and effectively an opportunity to appeal to Hon. President Mr. David Granger so that he may put an end to the current lawlessness and nepotism which seems to have infected the top brass of the Guyana Police Force.
I make reference to a Kaieteur News article dated July 22, 2018 and headlined “Inspector transferred after refusing to take Top Cop’s call on civilian’s phone ”. I was disheartened when I read of yet another officer being penalized for just doing his job, the job he’s paid to do via taxpayers’ money.
I am acquainted with the officer in question and from what I know, the Guyana Police Force is all he knows. Being a policeman and upholding the law is his passion. I take several issues with the action taken by the Commissioner (ag),
1) Why did the Commissioner (ag) request to speak to the Inspector via a civilian’s phone? Proper practices and chain of command were not followed. The Commissioner (ag) had four others senior officers through whom he could have had his request expedited namely the Divisional Commander, the Deputy Commander, the Divisional Crime Chief as well as the Divisional Traffic Chief.
2) When did it become ethical for an Inspector of Police, with thirty-four years of service under his belt, to answer the telephone of any civilian caught in breach of the country’s laws, just because he purports to have a ‘boss man’ on the line?
Honorable Mr. President, it brings me to retrospect to just a few weeks ago, when another rank with whom I am also acquainted, DSP Stephen, a man I consider to be of merit and of high standing, was also transferred along with a Sergeant of Police for reprimanding a priest with a dark tinted vehicle and devoid of the relevant documentation for such a vehicle.
It is ridiculous to me that a priest who should be leading by example so that others may follow, should be caught infringing on the very laws the Bible compels us to adhere to, just because he knows some people in high places. Total nonsense.
When will the acting Commissioner desist from bringing such disgrace and disrepute to the ranks of the Guyana Police Force, his brothers and sisters in arms? When will he cease from damaging the morale of those who have taken an oath to serve and protect?
Although I am of no political affiliation (as I have chosen not to exercise my democratic right to vote), I have always held and shall continue to hold former President, the late Mr. Hugh Desmond Hoyte, in the highest of respect and esteem as one of the fairest and most unbiased Presidents in Guyana’s history. Many of us would recall the rioting and looting which took place subsequent to the 1992 General Elections which saw Mr. Hoyte and his government ousted from office.
Although the rioters were allegedly supporters of Mr. Hoyte, he unequivocally and publicly condemned their actions. In layman terms, he had the audacity to call a spade a spade, a trait which seems to be void of the Guyana Police Force as well as the nation in its entirety.
Honorable Mr. President, as a son of this soil, I am a born Guyanese and when I die my ashes will be spread over this land. It pains me as I envisage the psychological miasma that now envelopes every facet of day to day life in a land I so endearingly call “God’s Country”.
Although I did not vote (as I mentioned above), I was elated when you took office in 2015, because I was and I still am of the firm belief that you possess the qualities and discipline to restore order back to the land of my birth, Only you can right the wrongs and bring about a reinstitution to the rule of law.
I’m appealing to you, Honorable President, do what is right, do what is just and correct the wrongs being done by these ego-maniacal narcissists who have found themselves in high positions.
I stand in solidarity with all those who have fallen prey to the indiscretions of these ‘Adolph Hitlers’ and ‘Josef Stalins’ who have by some inexplicable twist of fate, ascended to the realms of authority.
I leave with you these words once uttered by the Irish statesman Sir.Edmund Burke “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing”.
Concerned Citizen & Son of the Soil

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