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Kaieteur News – The entire PPPC Government should resign immediately. It is a largely sick group, a very feeble group, and an all but useless group for Guyanese.
The leadership of the PPPC Government is beyond disgraceful, it now stands as a set of Guyanese guilty of the worst form of treachery: it cannot even summon the guts to stand for its own people, the people who put them where they are.Even before ExxonMobil could get its ducks in a row, the PPPC Government was on the move: it is appealing. While ExxonMobil was still “reviewing” the High Court’s decision, the PPPC Government had already decided that it was appealing, and not wasting any time even to go through the motions of studying the judge’s decision, and its foundations. In immediately signaling its intentions of appealing, the PPPC Government was doing its best imitation of jumping as high as it could in efforts to bend over backwards in total subservience to the will of ExxonMobil.
No government should be given a pass, allowed to get away, with such a cavalier dismissal of the rights of Guyanese. This PPPC Government should be pressed to resign in disgrace; there is nothing of value coming out of it, especially where this national oil wealth is concerned. When oil takes centerstage, the President, Vice President, and Attorney General, all hide behind words, do their best to hide from the public, and hide from standing up for Guyanese interests, Guyanese rights, and Guyanese future.
The Vice President has gone so far as to essentially suggest to, to point, the Guyanese judiciary in the direction “predictable decisions” due to the fact that foreign eyes from all over are on every development in Guyana. is not a stupid man, or an over his head leader. He has to know the full significance, and the full reach, of what he hints (some may assert that he slyly directs) regarding the decisions that the judges and courts of Guyana make their final, official decisions.
What about the independence of the judiciary? How come that does not matter anymore? Why are Guyanese so silent? Remember: today it is the judiciary, tomorrow who know what other excesses could be in the making?
Encroachments of the executive, if not the open pressure now that the PPPC Government applies to sway things to favour ExxonMobil and other foreign companies operating here, even if that means that Guyanese are endangered and impoverished. This is the state of Guyana’s democracy, where the executive now has little qualms about intruding into the realm of the judiciary, even publicly guiding it as to the judicial path that it should follow. In its substances, that is what “predictable” could be construed to mean, viz. the issuing of decisions that make those watching from afar clap their hands, while they prepare to grind Guyanese into the gutter.
What does the Opposition have to say about this staggering overreach? Why is it not more vociferous about this overstep? There has to be a limit to the extent that Guyanese can take. There must be a pause on how far the PPPC Government would go, how much President Ali would allow Vice President to go, how much he can stomach. Where is the legal fraternity, none more so than the Guyana Bar Association? It was expected that the GBA would be crying out in anguish. Instead, to date, it has been thunderously silent, almost as if its members are walking in the graveyard and whistling to themselves for fear of getting themselves in hot water. Why is there so much fear stalking this land when our bastions are such shrinking violets? Somebody has to step up and say something about this abomination, if not ExxonMobil is going to walk all over Guyanese, while it races to pump and pump more oil, and beyond recommended safety limits.Not much can be expected from the local private sector because it is on the foreign side of the fence. That is, until its own interests are jeopardised. It is interesting that all the voices of the ‘Guardians of Democracy’ have all gone stone cold. Guyana is in deep waters, and it does not know how much.
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