Personification of evil

Mar 21, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

We talk abundantly about corruption here, but we don’t even know the half of it. The PPP government makes hay targeting coalition rogues, ignores others. What citizens do not know is that such is part of the PPP leadership cover-up: repayment for favours when it was in opposition from helpful coalition seniors. Today, we have flurries of probes of high-profile opposition aligned people, but those are operas that to thrill audience and die right there.
One extraordinary arrangement consummated between top people in the then PPP opposition and governing coalition counterparts involved, believe it or not, phone cards. A PPP leader called, was answered, with deal sealed. The rest is history. One coalition agent pushed; his knees were chopped off. Another situation is of the present, where we have a leader, who had almost a score of fraud charges levelled. That, too, is gone with the wind, fleeting tips of icebergs now submerged. We have one leader whose name comes up, in the worst ways, with every major project in Guyana, but he carries the day. The word is that he may be the wealthiest man around; if the known citywide real estate holdings (only) are any indication, then there is the confirmation of Guyana’s chief moneychanger. Not a chick nor a chicken coop to his name, but the equivalent of Swiss bank vaults to house his rich secrets. Since August, Guyanese have seen the return of men with thick question marks, and big black stains, to spearhead more malfeasances and greater deceptions. It is big money time, and they are the cashiers and accountants and auditors. The auditors see what they want to see when they want to; then they ponder the next move: to document or not to document. If it involves their people, books are quietly closed: there is no problem. When they fulfill their calling in a professional and principled manner, then the lawyers take over, which is the next circle of covering darkness. If these are not the personifications of evil, then no one is. Not of wrongdoing or wickedness, but of intrinsic evils. Men speak out against state corruptions by state officers, then compete to free them. For a sweet fee, of course; it comes from the public treasury looted.
The main men and their co-conspirators forming the apex of today’s governance structure fall into this repugnant category. Listen to them, and they can’t say a single truthful word about oil or gas or things to come from the gifts of Guyana. They rant against corrupt contractors and builders, then shortlist the ‘blacklisted’ for a billion-dollar bridge. Some ‘vig’ must be involved. Three political leaders, in particular, live and thrive in darkness; their speech, sweat, shadow, and scent are of the deepest evils. In Dante’s darkest circle three men hang from Satan’s jaws: Judas Iscariot, Brutus and Cassius. The leading three we have here are worse than those. Two are from the current government, one from the opposition. Make the selections.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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