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PPP and PNC are in bed, always been

Jul 09, 2021 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,

I disagree with the PPP insistence on the PNC recognising its ‘legitimacy’ as the standing Guyana government. Surely, it cannot be this insecure, this in need of PNC authentication. PPP leaders should not be this lacking in confidence and self-esteem that they need – indeed, crave -the signoff, nod of approval, and handshake endorsement of the lost PNC.
I also disagree with the PNC on the group’s ‘illegitimate’ posture, though I appreciate the Catch-22 in which its leaders find themselves. For to withdraw claim of ‘illegitimate’ means that elections court petitions have to be kissed goodbye. Incidentally, I keep using PNC because it is the coalition, regardless of the alphabet snakes and ladders that comprise the group; it goes up and down, with some gobbled up, others regurgitated. And at the core of my thorough disagreements with, and towering disrespects for, both groups and their luminaries, is how Guyana and its peoples are held to ransom, and suspended on a butcher’s meat hook.
Moreover, I contend that both PPP and PNC play a crooked game with Guyanese. I suspect that the leading spokespeople of both parties are fully committed to an under-the-table relationship, which pays handsome dividends to both sides. They answer to Exxon, which they recognise has the deep pockets, and is not below resorting to use such with host country political, business, and social elites to solidify presence and cause. One exhibit of this criminal state of politics in Guyana is the opposition that was supposedly incensed at the removal of its PAC chair, and vowed ‘defiance.’ In the next breath, the deceptions continue, when the ousted chair is seconding the new chair from his group; such are the smokescreens from this parade of jokers on the nation’s comedy show. So much for opposition self-respect and threatened defiance, it is that of a one-legged ballet dancer. Naturally, the resonant and ready defense is that if there is no opposition presence, then the PPP will run amok, with no watchdogs in sight. It does that anyway, coalition watchdogs or not, and the opposition’s watchdogs look for their own bones. Results are the same. The opposition has to make up its mind: it can’t be half in bed with the PPP, and simultaneously half in make-believe confrontation with it. Decide one way or another: cooperation or none at all. Stop these charades, which fool none.
I cut closer to the chase: I believe that opposition people have been cut into the money, plenty of it. Study carefully those party defections, and there is the proof. The VP will deal; they get a meal. I take matter a step still further: black commercial interests have a choice: starve or surrender. Both they and the VP have a two-word euphemism for the leadership orchestrated Mafia shakedowns: confidential agreements. There is political deviousness and back scratching going on here, while a mentally empty citizenry hope for the best. Guyanese can dream, but first they must exist with these political decayed dreamboats for leaders/parties.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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