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A reckless call to overthrow the duly elected PPP/C government

Mar 18, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

Following the five months of attempted electoral fraud between March and July 2020, and intense but flimsy judicial litigation, the PNCR led government failed in a most heinous attempt to usurp power. Now part of the cabal that misused the public funds in its sojourn for five years as Guyana’s government has resumed its thirst for power. In the WPA’s (a party of dubious membership and policies) recent public meeting at Buxton, the narrative adopted by some of its long-standing members like David Hinds and Tacuma Ogunseye is a call to uproot the democratically elected PPP/C government by the armed services through violence.

As we all heard, the call to arms a few days ago was spearheaded by no other that Mr. Tacuma Ogunseye, whose real name is Colin Young and who once labeled the five criminals in the notorious 2001 jailbreak as freedom fighters. Further, he embellished the murderous East Coast carnage (2001-2005), the nucleus of which originated in Buxton) as an African Liberation Movement! For someone who spent four years in jail under the PNC regime to do a back somersault implies a confused mindset. In 1993, I was with Mr. Ogunseye on a panel at the US Embassy to discuss the progress and policies of the PPP/C government with former radio and TV broadcaster Kit Nascimento who made the lead presentation. Mr. Ogunseye’s contribution was as bizarre and ludicrous as his most recent call to use violence to remove the PPP/C government from power.

The example of history is replete with failed coups because for coups to succeed, the people in the country where it takes place must support the new leaders. However, in almost all the countries, the new regime served as a mere replica of its predecessor, thus precipitating protracted civil wars. If democracy was the driving force of these WPA point-men, then their energies should have been directed at the brutal PNC dictatorship that ravaged and impoverished Guyana for 28 years.

On the issue of kith and kin, it is relevant to indicate that Afro-Guyanese, along with their Indo-Guyanese brethren, are enjoying the greatest period in Guyana’s economic development. Today Guyana’s per capita income is much higher than when the previous government departed office. Many are of the opinion that a return of the PNC to power will not only fail to manage the economy, but will also provide poor and lackluster governance that could lead to chaos and ruin the gains accumulated in their absence from power. In conclusion, those who are inciting others to use arms to topple the government have misdirected their energy in the wrong place. No one will benefit from such reckless, offensive, and insensible statement. It is relevant to quote the old Swahili proverb: When elephants fight, it is the grass that gets trampled.

Sincerely,

Leyland Chitlall Roopnaraine

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