Continuing lies and mischief by a ‘’disheartened’’ PPP/C supporter

Sep 26, 2019 Letters

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DEAR EDITOR,

There can be no moral expectation, of any degree, that can be expected from any PPP/C supporter. In fact, they all have been part of its scheme of national deception, lies, and misinformation of every conceivable kind – aimed against the President David Granger-led administration – which has commenced since 2015, as a means of returning to power.
In quite clear terms, the treachery of the No Confidence Motion, the biggest political lie in the nation’s political annals; its perpetrators, and all their filthy lies, constitute the most dishonest and hypocritical period of the nation. And they come in all forms and guises, like one Michael Younge, whose piece of putrid effluence ‘Mr. Granger has lost all authority to govern and Guyana has descended into anarchy’, published in Kaieteur News of September 20, 2019, is a perfect example of a PPP/C supporter sinking to a filthy low.
In fact, all the fiction that he has so shamelessly conjured up, in his journey through the wonderland of lies, is representative of a political Munchausen category.
The ideal, in Younge’s case, would be to expose each of his dark fibs. But such is too lengthy an exercise, costly in time; hence the following examples of this supporter’s ill- informed and distorted mind will suffice.
1. Of course, like his political handlers, he has attacked the Madame Ret’d Justice Claudette Singh; GECOM’s Chairperson, by first, stating that her timeline of February 2020, for national elections “must be rejected by all right thinking Guyanese’’, and accusing her of “adopting the diabolical plan of the government Commissioners to further delay these elections…GECOM has thrown away any hope of Constitutional Compliance…”
This is an exhibition of deliberate ignorance, and disrespect for both the Chairperson, her functions, and of the constitutional body itself. The letter writer in his ignorance, wickedness, and mischief must be reminded that it is the Constitutional right of GECOM to make all plans and decisions, through its secretariat, with regards the holding of national elections. In this key function of its responsibilities – it has discharged its stated duty, compliments of the unflappable Madame Chairperson.
What Younge should be reminded is that his party’s invited commissioner, refused the Chairperson’s invitation, also extended to the government’s, to be part of the timeline decision making process, which she most likely opened for a consensus, but with sound evidence to support. The rest is now history – she made her decision in the most commendable manner, as is her right; and without fear or favour, unfazed by partisanship, ‘political rhetoric and political gamesmanship as Younge has libellously inferred, but only in accordance with the constitutional mandate. One wonders as to the decrepit low that PPP/C supporters have to descend in order to support their party’s horrible utensil pot of yellow lies.
2. Younge then attempts to attack the impeccable person of the President. This is committing political sacrilege, since as political leader cum president, David Granger stands head high in the pantheon of national leaders, in any era, in any country. His credentials as a law abider are unrivalled and applauded; his genuine belief in the ideals of a democratic state, and non-interference in the work of constitutional bodies; and other state institutions are text book references for any aspiring would-be democratic leader.
As an accomplished historian and academic, he has read well, and therefore fully understands the consequences, the pitfalls for any leader who treats his country in the manner, as Nicolas Maduro, Younge’s reference, and those former PPP/C presidents. Let Younge present a PPP/C equal in democratic practice to President Granger, and I will tell him why in my opinion Saddam Hussein was a better president than either Bharrat Jagdeo or Donald Ramotar.
3. Here comes Younge, this time, with a figment of the greatest imagination, a now worn piece of PPP/C propaganda that would immediately attract the attention of both the Public Health and environmental authorities for the obnoxious smell it emits: ‘’Any government that holds on to power by trampling on the rights and freedoms of its people usually suffers embarrassing defeat at any free and fair elections……”.
4. Younge, has this time underlined his credentials, as a liar par excellence for his unsubstantiated attempt to ascribe an undemocratic practice to the coalition government. Who could have trampled on the ‘rights and democratic freedoms’ of its people more than the PPP/C?
Younge, one should believe, is old enough to recall the teargassing of nurses and other public servants during the last general strike in 1999; a similar treatment to sugar workers on the West Bank Demerara in the early years of the Millennium; the proroguing of parliament by president Ramotar without a debate, and not even informing the then parliamentary opposition – and the list can continue.
This government is democratic, and believes in a clean voters’ list for credible national elections and transparent results. Unlike the PPP/C that has objected to house-to-house registration that it had always supported, the Coalition insisted that this important exercise be done, for upholding the rights of the people, unlike the PPP/C which refusal would have threatened the disenfranchisement of first time voters, particularly.
5. One wonders as to the blinkered and self-delusional state of mind of this PPP/C mouthpiece, whose claim about the ‘dark days have returned’; ‘‘business owners must distance themselves’’ from the government, while further asserting that
“Permanent Secretaries and other public office holders have no duty to follow instructions..’’, and advising ‘‘…….youths to boycott all events attended by Mr. Granger….”, highlights the significant folly of Younge’s wishy washy wishes, conjuring the image of a country at a standstill.
Far from the truth. For one must enquire of Younge just how, when and why did these dark days return? For his guidance, very disappointedly, those kinds of days that once existed during his former party government’s regime, have almost dissipated since 2015.
It is because of the APNU+AFC coalition that Guyana began to move forward, on clean money transactions, with an economy forecast at 4.4 percent growth for 2019, and in double digits for 2020; with business booming, a reported US $1B investments made in Guyana, and all senior sector officers continuing to support a government that allows them to function in a professional manner, which means non-interference in their daily administration, unlike the PPP/C micro managing system.
As to the nation’s youths, of course they are flocking to wherever president Granger and other ministerial functionaries are, because like me, they have a new lease on life; a better hope for tomorrow; and better self-esteem, all because of the numerous programmes that have continued to bring changes to their once hopeless lives.
And this concerns youths from all of our ten administrative regions. For example, the Hinterland Education Youth Services programme (HEYS) has been changing the lives of our indigenous youths, giving them a clear understanding of themselves as Guyanese and a part of the national family, with the right to be educated and play a role in national development.
While one will agree that there are existing challenges at the moment that will be resolved, there is a brighter sun shining over this land, more than ever, with citizens continuing to make their contribution, and be part of the National renewal process, underway since 2015.
The many public voices of the PPP/C doom and gloom campaign, which is causing the opposite effect, and of which Younge is one of its shameful PR mouthpieces, prays and wishes daily for their naysaying wishes to come true. But the eyes of Guyanese are daily being awakened as to the threat of the lurking perils of the very political party which he so shamelessly represents, not only by way of their criminal governance for their two decades and years in office, but as a result of witnessing their villainous acts of seeking to grab power for selfish means.
Younge has described himself as a ‘‘young journalist’’ who is ‘’disheartened’’ at what is occurring. I would re-write this to mean: a young journalist whose high-class proclivity for diatribe as displayed in his letter, illustrates a young man, completely wallowing in deception, with a lie-filled brain that will explode at any time. Such will be his personal legacy to what he continues to create – all lies.
Regards
Dillon Goring

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