The Anna Regina APNU LGE launch

Oct 11, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor
On Monday 8 October 2018, residents reported that it was announced over the loudspeakers at the Anna Regina Car Park that the APNU will be launching its Local Government Elections political campaign in Region Two with a rally at which President Granger will be present.
From all reports, validated by those on the ground, the rally was a total failure.
The attendance was less than one hundred and fifty persons comprised primarily of about seventy-five schoolchildren from the nearby secondary schools and a smattering of government employees and party activists, some of whom were transported from Georgetown.
It was shockingly noticeable also the purported and seeming abuse of State resources and taxpayers dollars by the President to conduct such party political activities. One must be concerned that this ruse seems to be a pattern utilized by His Excellency when conducting his party activities across Guyana. Good governance requires that the President utilizes his party’s resources and apparatuses rather than exploit scare state resources to mobilize a crowd for him to speak to.
From all reports, the President’s speech was tame as it presented a disingenuous scenario of what obtains on the ground in Region Two. The truth is, life has become burdensome; businesses have become unprofitable; rice farming has become unviable, young people have become unemployable; parents have become hard-pressed. The President deliberately stayed away from speaking about the new-found hardships that his policies have placed on our hapless citizens. Nothing was said about creating jobs, reducing cost of living, preventing crime, fighting corruption.
The platitudes of taking ownership were aplenty. But that was only half of the story. Nothing was said about government-directed victimization of specific NDCs, about government-led efforts that stymie infrastructural development in rural villages, about the spawning procurement fraud, about government incompetence that creates massive shortages of drugs and medical supplies across the region, about pregnant mothers dying at the hospital.
This approach pursued by the President does not build confidence and does not bode well for the future of this country.
The now media fetish of the President to coax people into a crowd to listen to him, he presented a few bicycles to some students.
If indeed the President and government were serious about education, the handover of the bicycles should have been done at the schools rather than at a political campaign meeting.
Moreover, the highly successful and impactful $10,000 grant per school child which the President removed after his assumption to office, would have been a much better incentive to our schoolchildren.
I stand corrected, but reports from Corriverton indicated that this same crowd mobilization technique was used by the President during his party campaigning in that municipality; and, I would not be surprised if the same technique is used to mobilize a crowd for the President during his visit to Lethem township shortly.
It is quite noticeable that crowd mobilization is a tenuous task of both APNU and AFC so there is a vigorous effort to entice people using illusive means.
In Region Two, the residents have made a major shift in an almost total rejection of the APNU/AFC. Their sparse attendance to a campaign rally hosted by the President, who is Leader of both PNC and APNU, is indicative of their lack of trust and loss of confidence in the President and current government.
After three years of continuous mismanagement and incompetence by the PNC-led government, the residents of Essequibo Coast have shown in no uncertain terms, their disapproval of the way our country is currently being managed.
Since its installation into office, the APNU/AFC Regime embarked on a systematic and incomprehensible plan to destroy the lives of our poor and vulnerable citizens, and businesses in Guyana.
Citizens are now fully aware that the pre-2015 campaign rhetoric holds no strength because the APNUAFC government has steadfastly undone all the positive indicators of progress and prosperity.
At these local government elections, both the APNU and AFC do not inspire much. As a matter of fact, AFC has become very unwanted as it is now an open secret that like APNU, it is tainted with high levels of corruption and hypocrisy.
Yours faithfully
Nigel Dharamlall MP

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