It is the Coalition Government which has betrayed the Guyanese public by failing to live up to its promises

Dec 23, 2018 Letters

Dear Editor,

It was only last month that I wrote that the ‘No Confidence’ Motion filed against the APNU/AFC Coalition Government is timely and opportune since corruption, mismanagement and squandering of public funds are at its zenith. The entire economy is in a downward spiral, crimes are on the increase, jailbreaks have now become the norm and the entire social fabric is disintegrating and the masses have lost confidence. There is little or no accountability and transparency and there seems to be an insane haste to squander monies from this Nation’s Treasury with no regards for value for money.
I had no doubt that the results of the Local Government bore an unequivocal testimony to the fact that the Coalition has failed to deliver on its Election promises and this will result in a vote of conscience for at least one member of the Government. Moreover, that fact that the Honourable Member of Parliament Mr. Charrandass Persaud voted according to his conscience is no surprise to me and should not be a surprise to anyone who knows him. What surprises me is the fact that it took more than three years for his conscience to be rekindled! But I guess he wanted to wait for that propitious moment when his vote of conscience can reverse the mistake he and others like him made in 2015.
Fortunately, this moment of epiphany occurred to me, Sasenarine Singh, the entire Canadian Chapter, Dr. Rose and Dr. Ramayya and a host of others and now it has happened to Mr. Charrandass Persaud. But Charrandass’ support of Jagdeo’s no confidence’ motion `will go down in the annals as the most courageous single act by any one man. He was unfazed as he repeatedly uttered ‘yes’ fearlessly and voted as his conscience dictated. He emphasized this when he stated that, “My conscience is now clear. My life may go, but I’ll die a happy person, and with a clear conscience… This is the one time that I had a say, and I said it according to my conscience’. He has lived up to the oath he took when he assumed office!
Moses Nagamootoo as usual tried to make a ‘spin’ by insinuating that Mr. Charrandass may have been ‘compromised’. But Charrandass himself debunked this false accusation. He stated a number of reasons and chief among those is the fact that the AFC leaders have become ‘yes men’ for the PNC dominated APNU, which destroyed the lives of thousands of sugar workers while they ‘run around enjoying the good life’! The only thing Charrandass had ‘compromised’ during the past three and a half year was his conscience and that he changed by his historic voting. In his own inimitable style, Ramjattan saw ‘expulsion’ as the solution since he ‘betrayed’ the Coalition but Charrandass made it clear that he was tired of the AFC and would like to free himself from the political scene.
A few in the AFC and the PNC are talking about ‘betrayal’ by Charrandass but anyone with an iota of conscience will testify that it is the AFC leaders who have betrayed its members and supporters. I saw this since 2011 but by 2015, the coalescing with the APNU saw the abortion of all its founding principles. I wrote about this ‘subservience’ of the AFC to the PNC. The AFC leaders became totally absorbed in enjoying the ‘good life’ and selfishly maintaining their status quo.
Furthermore, it is the Coalition Government, which has betrayed the Guyanese public by miserably failing to live up to its 2015 Manifesto promises.
I salute Mr. Charrandass Persaud in inspiring Guyanese confidence in the ‘no confidence’ motion and for the strategic timing of Dr. Jagdeo to ‘bring it on’!

Yours sincerely,
Haseef Yusuf

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