Cover-up pressures making PPP/C leaders unstable

Oct 01, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

PPP/C leaders persist in seeking to fool citizens. When they don’t get their way, they lash out in sordid ways. They may have thought that what was presented to the public was convincing, but even simpletons have no difficulty seeing through leadership charades, which fool none, and only make them look smaller, lower.
One said that transparency reigns. Either he has no idea what transparency means, or the deviousness is not just blatant, but incomparable. I assert that the pressures to keep the lid on outright lies, subtle camouflages, and numerous red herrings employed by PPP/C leaders are backfiring. These cause them to be unstable, where they and their people become reckless.
Leaders in government have twisted themselves into so many knots, with oil and gas deceptions, that they can’t tell a straight story anymore; on anything material. They have no credibility left; secrecy drives suspicions; and this is after only one short year. The best that they do, through proxy flunkies, is to spout about how much they spent, where they went, and to whom they gave money, with easy comparisons to what the wretched PNC did or didn’t do; there is nothing easier. And when that fails, or is challenged, they get agents to attack from behind bushes. Men who have big things to hide engage in bigger misdeeds to snuff out undesirables. I plan on hanging that on their sorry heads for a long time to come.
Since shifty PPP/C leaders embarked on a programme of corruption with the biggest game in town (oil), they can’t turn back now, even if they wish to; they don’t. So, they are left with no choice, but to plough ahead and hope that things hold, and they escape accountability. I will hold them accountable, by raising corruptions in their faces. When I think of the sum of governmental and ministerial farces and follies already recorded on this watch, I conclude that such accountability will extend beyond oil, inclusive of cash being doled out, and the corruptions being covered up (EPA and EIAs, COVID-19 funds, and flood funds). Before the Americans took over (they have), leaders use to shout down; now they run down, and try to beat down into submission. They operate like nervous ghetto gang leaders, seeing shadows where none exist, so fearful they are of the truths of exposure. Thus, the paranoia of leaders becomes more pronounced.
I think that this is what is now deeply embedded in Guyana, when one analyses postures and statements of PPP/C leaders, mostly corrupt: they run, but can’t hide. Hiding behind words, falsehoods, dirty tricks do not provide ethical glosses. Rather, politics and leadership actions today resemble the fine art of prostitution. Because Guyanese political leaders (and henchmen) prostitute themselves, they should learn from those honest practitioners: present the goods. Name the price. Deliver the product. No more, no less. Strange as that sounds, it is an honest way in which to govern a nation, and oneself, too.

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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