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Bharrat Jagdeo, Irfaan Ali and the PPP are threats to the public interests
Dear Editor,
Chapter three section 40 (1) of the Constitution of Guyana guarantees every Guyanese is entitled to the basic right to a happy, creative and productive life, free from hunger, ignorance and want.
But as it was when he was President and the PPP/C in government, Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP today are still threats to the public interest in Guyana. The Opposition Leader’s recent intimidations of public servants, threats to public officials including the Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission and contractors who sign contracts with the state is a demonstration that any future PPP government with Mr. Jagdeo in the shadows as the boogeyman is a clear and present danger for every Guyanese.
In modern democracies any court would judge that Mr. Jagdeo knowingly made statements that “(were) not the result of mistake, duress, or coercion” and that any “reasonable person” would regard them as threatening.
Immense discrimination, curtailment of civil liberties, imprisonment, state-sponsored attacks on citizens who dared challenged the PPP, and even death to the citizen was the hallmark of the PPP regime led by Mr. Jagdeo.
The 400 murdered and executed men and women during the PPP’s dark days are only the tip of the iceberg of the PPP’s rule.
Thousands more were fired from their jobs for speaking up; a teenager locked up for showing dissent to the President’s motorcade; an indigenous citizen threatened with violence by former President Ramotar; a former first lady mentally and emotionally abused by the man who was supposed to protect her; scores of citizens including sugar workers – their own base – shot and attacked by the police; a female citizen threatened to be stripped in public by a Minister; another Minister walking into the NCN studios and banning the expression of free speech in a calypso; CN Sharma harassed for representing the views of the poor and Mark Benschop jailed for advocating for vulnerable people. These are only a few examples.
As a single parent, my mother struggled to raise three children and contemplated aligning herself with the PPP/C just to ensure we had access to opportunities for a better life. But she was told that she had to be on the front lines of any protest when called upon to do so.
Wisdom prevailed and she decided against mortgaging her children’s future to the PPP. Later on in my professional life, I had to leave the employ of the government for fear of becoming corrupted because of the refusal by senior officials to sponsor me for job specific training when I was handling hundreds millions of dollars in transactions.
I then had my own employment outside of the government threatened by the PPP because of my facebook opinions about policy positions of the then government. So, I too have been a victim of the PPP’s discrimination and threats.
Irfaan Ali, Bharrat Jagdeo and the PPP must not be given the opportunity to continue the physical, physiological, emotional and structural violence on the citizens of Guyana we endured under their previous rule.
Mr. Jagdeo’s recent series of threats are clear and present red flags that any future PPP/C government will be brutal to Guyana and its citizens’ interests.
Yours Sincerely,
Independent Guyanese Millennial
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