This society urgently needs the watchdog commissions in place

Nov 09, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – The Sunday papers brought small stirrings of interest. Both SN and KN had captions of Article 13, a new civil society group, taking a stand on long overdue issues, some pivotal oversight commissions. I state where I stand.

This society urgently needs the watchdog commissions identified by Article 13. Functioning Procurement, Judicial Service, and Public Service Commissions have all been nonexistent for some time.
I think that it is deliberate on the part of the PPP leaders, who try every delaying trick, so that they can rush full speed ahead with the shenanigans, for which they have long been known. In a time of inaction (goods and projects) that may be allowed to pass unaddressed, but only briefly. But in a period when there has been so much spending and contracting and acquiring, and planning of greater degrees of activity in all three areas, not to have overseers in place, especially procurement, does not speak well of the integrity and ambitions of PPP stewards. I call such ambitions for what they are: suspicious (at best), criminal, at their worst.

President and Vice President, and their cabal of corroborating ministers and public servants are good at generating windstorms with words. In the wake of these elected and selected officials, there are the mudslides of ugliness, of what should have been, but are not. And of what did occur, and questions of how that could be, under the watch of any who say they are about transparency and accountability. It is as if they have arranged a statewide apparatus to accommodate doing business a certain way. From my perspective, there are no ifs about that dirty crooked way it is.

The President and Vice President prioritise anything that is about grand spending and procuring, but of proper screening of, and accounting for, their actions, and those of their likeminded cast, they are grossly indifferent. Of course, they get the Hon Attorney General to follow after them with his cleaning broom and mop, as if his sanitising words and postures of what his group intends persuade any principled or conscientious Guyanese. Matters have risen to such a farcical state here, things that the Cabinet in pursuit of its twisted agendas gives “no objection(s)” on what starts with it, is powered by it, and then comes right back to it, for this utter vulgarity of tendering “no objection(s)” on itself.

This is but one of the matters that Article 13 drew attention to, that it seeks results (not more deceptive, delaying words). If not, the law would take its course. Well, they are looking to load up on judges, which provokes some thinking of who and what kind they will get, for the lip service to constitution and clean governance to continue. In closing, I am guarded about Article 13, such is my cynicisms about local civil society people. Today, I laud it. Perhaps, we may have something good going here. I watch.

Sincerely,

GHK Lall

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