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The crisis of credibility continues to stalk Guyana
Dear Editor,
We are indeed facing a crisis of credibility in this country. People in high positions in this country would say or do provocative things today and a few months after they come out in defiance of what they said or did, as if the Guyanese public has no eyes , ears or memory. For example, President Granger scrutinised several lists containing names of prominent Guyanese supplied by the opposition leader as prospective candidate for the GECOM chair and did not find any one “fit and proper”. A few day ago , in delaying his choice of a police commissioner. He said he was looking for someone “unbribable “and that, “If I put somebody there who is not trustworthy the public would laugh,” Incredulous! Was laughable ever a consideration for GECOM chair? After asking two 82-year-old PUC and Police Complaints Authority chairmen to resign because he felt that they were too old, he unilaterally appoints an 84-year-old for the GECOM chair. That’s laughable!
Another example. Governor of the Central Bank, Dr. Gobind Ganga did not utter a word to the media or anyone when he received the letter from the finance Ministry, instructing him what to do with the “signing bonus”. The bank had received the US$18 million and he remained silent too. After the lid on the signing bonus broke he did not comment. Now! Learning that Central Bank would be appointed the operational manager of the Natural Resource Fund, Dr. Ganga told KN that,”We (Central Bank) will not allow any abuse of the Natural Resource Fund. The withdrawal rules will be upheld.”
One would have expected Dr. Ganga to make that statement to a few inebriated patrons at a bar- not KN, the paper with the widest circulation in Guyana, knowing that with KN, his remarks would have to stand the scrutiny of the public. It’s difficult to comprehend his incredulity!
You have to cringe at his audacity for saying, “The withdrawal rules will be upheld”-rules not made as yet, while the written rules in article 216 of the Guyana constitution state that all monies paid to the state must be placed in the consolidated fund were disobeyed. Being the Governor of the Central Bank, I am inclined to believe that Dr. Ganga is knowledgeable about all the articles in the constitution pertaining to the Consolidated Fund, since the said fund is kept in the central bank. Why did he not comply? Or did he interpret article 216 differently? If he did, he could have given us his version.
How can he defend the central bank insularity from political interference, given his silence or lack of action on the signing bonus fiasco?
This crisis of credibility had pervaded our society since independence. It is testimony that important people in the top echelons of society have the perception that we the people are all underlings, incapable of analyzing and detecting the fake personalities they present to us.
Rudolph Sing
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