The announcement of the century

May 25, 2019 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

To my utter amazement, I read this week that a person no other than Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo himself, has promised to set up anti-corruption institutions if the PPP gets back in office.
Several things are happening here. First Mr. Jagdeo is clearly playing to the gallery, as he is trying to assure the West, supporters, the middle and the business class, that he and the PPP will finally tackle corruption once and for all.
Never mind the fact that every single complaint about corruption from every single facet of society prior to 2015 was met with political disdain from the PPP, never official denials, just disdain and dismissals.
Never mind that the PPP to this day cannot explain the spectacular wealth that many of its high officials accumulated in a very short space of time, and the lack of value for money the nation of Guyana experienced from several projects including, of course, the Skeldon Estate and Fibre Optic cable project.
But I blame the Coalition for as we say in Guyanese parlance, the “spounce” Mr. Jagdeo now possesses is because of its lacklustre approach to investigating the vast amount of theft, graft and nepotism that were the hallmarks of the PPP, especially during the time of Jagdeo. Today they walk freely, heads held high, and are in turn accusing the Coalition of being even more corrupt than the 23 years in office. Good heavens. How can this be?
Editor, Jagdeo is so hell-bent on getting back into power to control the wealth and levers of state that he is not even allowing Irfaan Ali, the presidential candidate, to speak on these issues. Mr. Jagdeo is so desperate for power that he and his party have spent millions of dollars to hire an American propaganda firm to help clean up their image, while attacking that of their opponent.
The fact is that the PPP, given their record under Jagdeo, is absolutely no good for Guyana. And the fact is that the job of that propaganda firm is to create fake news, attack and assassinate persons’ characters, to generate an unfavourable image of the PPP’s opponent.
At this stage, only time will tell if this administration’s failure to have ex-PPP big wigs pay for their wrongdoing will come back to bite those in power now in their political derrières.
As I rest my case, I remain astonished about the quietude from those running the country now. Not a word of condemnation has come from State House, Congress Place in Sophia, Office of the President, or the PM’s office.
This is the reason why Mr. Jagdeo has the gall and gumption to say he will establish institutions to deal with corruption, when corruption is the PPP’s mantra.
Winston Mars

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