A one-man government, looking more like country too

Feb 02, 2022 Letters

Dear Editor,
If any Guyanese needed conformation that the PPP/C Government is a one-man government, they got it recently. It came under the hand of Guyana’s President Ali. It related to the new $2000 note, and the one empowered to sign as Minister of Finance on it. Some delusional and unmoored leaders, who fall in love with themselves, have public statues put up for them, and name important places after themselves, while they are still alive. Well, Guyana Vice President went one step above all those, when he had his signature embedded in that $2000 bill; in time most Guyanese will get to touch one of those bills and be able to kneel and pay homage to this grand vizier of a leader, this national treasure, this priceless museum monument to an immortal Guyanese spirit.
Editor, I will be clear, the Vice President is not just Finance Minister. He is an unparalleled Minister without Portfolio, who holds the power of all government portfolios. He is the President, and makes the proxy one prostrate to his wishes, kowtow to his Machiavellian monstrosities.
Though I understand the bait that the President fell for, I have lost sympathy for him in the pathetic figure he cuts. What I fail to understand is how the Guyanese with responsibility for Finance in the Office of the President could allow himself to be humiliated publicly by being part of these bizarre concoctions.
From the start, that lengthy and awkward title relayed that there was a con job at work, and the man with the title was merely a convenient surrogate. I am amazed that a man with the pedigree of a Guyana scholar could love an office so much, love being a part of such dubious and sleazy arrangements, that he would lower himself to such an embarrassing level. I expect nothing but what played out from the Vice President, but surely the one with the responsibility for this nation’s finances should have more self-respect and dignity than to allow himself to be used in such shenanigans.
Unfortunately, the other larger than life Guyanese who has lost his self-esteem to such an extent that he bows before such dirty tricks is the Hon. Attorney General. He knows what I think of him, which sometimes is not so, ah, pretty. He has had a real education, obtained real credentials, and can make it on his own (as he has done handsomely, sometimes peculiarly) in the world beyond the Vice President manipulated party and government.
I don’t think that any man can love power or money or fruits so much that they lose track of who they are, and can be, and surrender to such leadership atrocities. As a man of the law, he knows of that cardinal breach, not of the letter of the CCJ’s ruling on third term, but of its spirit. Obviously, it doesn’t matter to him, which is why he is where he is, and I am how I am and where.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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