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Guyana’s leadership on honesty tests

Jul 18, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Guyana has been blessed with special leaders in its Golden Age of Oil. The people see gold, but taste the gristle of the gutter. They sicken. Our oil discoveries have unleashed many emotions, positions, and conclusions, as such relate to the role-principled or dishonourable – of leaders managing this treasure. Where do they stand, what can they expect, if anything? I cut through the controversial and incendiary, and table these million-dollar inquiries: are Guyana’s leaders on the up and up with oil? Have they done, will they do, justice by hopeful citizens? Or have they been of countless injustices with this oil, and more promised? I present where I stand.
Any trust relative to oil leadership is gone. When oil justice should have prevailed, a profusion of injustices has been wreaked on Guyanese. But I could be wrong, which would be highly unacceptable to me. Somebody correct me, please. What have their countenances conveyed, if not shiftiness? Their body odours too? It is said that fear has a peculiar, indefinable smell. I detect the strongest scent from these men. It is strongest when all of them run for cover are uncharacteristically tongue-tied, and the best they come up with are short, stiff-armed answers intended to be defensive, but registering as deceptive. Rather mysteriously, when they make themselves scarce, or turn sideways, sinister silhouettes expands. I search for clarity and integrity without any premediated inclinations for or against these chiefs in our political divide. And I always arrive at the same places: they are withholding. These men are protecting. Examples – the oil commander is not his usual swaggering, blustering confident self. The president is MIA. The opposition is artfully dodging. On the testing surfaces of Guyana’s oil, the track record is of bluffing. Stalling and dissembling, too. Regarding honesty tests, the marks are shocking. They fail. Honesty fuels integrity, which translates to responsibility, facilitates accountability, and delivers transparency on oil, and all else. When has it been so, now or before? Either with government or opposition? They fail and fall apart.
I desire to give these oil spearheads accolades. But for what and on what basis? They have not instilled confidence, don’t inspire trust, now in the scarcest of supply; they fail even at fooling themselves, when they stand before the mirror. If they have any of the sense that I associate with them, they cannot like what reflections shout back to them. Liar! Dodger! Trickster! They dim and disheveled; unconvincing and menacing, too. Truth be told, what this country’s oil prophets have installed, one especially, is a growing sense of dread and doom. That this oil wealth will be parceled out and squandered to engorge the few aligned Guyanese in a corrupt, criminal cabal, while Americans and Europeans benefit gorgeously. That the local-coloured people will remain poor and dumber than they have been pre-oil. I can say ‘dumb’ because I believe that it is what fits Guyana seamlessly. Part is self-inflicted, part due to the plumbing of their minds, compliments of their savvy leaders. As one example, it is noteworthy that fawning media worshipers of the local god praised and hailed for everything; declare themselves dumb and dead on his oil ethics. Regarding this Guyanese divine, I am an atheist; his gospel lacks truths.
I assert that Guyana’s oil czar has not handled this oil cleanly. He has two leading men, one now re-imported and re-positioned, to be the front men in the oil banditry long initiated in secrecy. Why secrecy? Why this mockery of elements that could have configured all of them with leadership morality and leadership integrity? Only they can answer, and they haven’t. Greed and money condemn them. If only they were 10 percent in a positive direction, how much different would this land have been.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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