Whose side is the President on?

Jul 10, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

Kaieteur News – A nation looks to its leaders for guidance and support when it really matters. Albeit, in times of sorrow as we previously experienced with the tragic loss of 20 young lives to the negligence of a fire at the dormitory in Mahdia Secondary school or in times of triumph, a leader elevates himself as the chief influencer of a nation’s morale. These virtues cannot be extolled to the President of Guyana, Dr. Mohammed Irfaan Ali. On numerous occasions, he has shown that his priorities are everything except the social, economic, and political development of Guyana.

The recent news reported by ‘Oilnow’ of the President giving assurance to the CEO of Hess Corporation that the State’s attempt to appeal the ruling of Judge Sandil Kissoon on the unlimited parent/ affiliate guarantee is troubling. The ruling by the judge to protect the nation’s interest in the event of major catastrophe by Esso Exploration (commonly referred to as Exxon Mobil) and its affiliates should unreservedly be the President’s interest and wellbeing of his country. Giving guarantees to foreign multinationals displays a different view of where his loyalties lie and that is not with the constituents to why he took the oath of office to defend.

On another occasion, while speaking to the diaspora, at a banquet in Canada last week, he is recorded saying as “leaders we have an obligation to present what the Guyana offers the world; not what Guyana offers to Guyanese but what Guyana offers to the World. This comment should cause any Guyanese and diaspora members to froth at the mouth of this misguided and senseless commentary by a head of state. Is the President saying that he is now the leader of the world and not the people of Guyana? His vain utterances will have vast overreaching implications for how he administrates his policies and political aspirations in 2025.

More notably, is the President’s apparent condoning of an alleged rape by his former Minister of Local Government and Regional Development. As a father of two children, the honorable thing was to remove the Minister forthrightly. His complacency of allowing circumvention of the investigation by the Minister and his attorneys along with the Guyana Police Force, is setting a precedence that senior executive members are above the law with special powers granted to them by him to groom, coerce and rape underage girls. Furthermore, the President is setting a standard that Ministers have a power to tamper with the investigation process and that the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) should treat the case like a football tossed back and forth between the police and the DPP chambers. There is sufficient evidence to charge this psychopath with rape simply by asking questions of why an underage teenage girl and her brother are at the home of a senior member of cabinet without parental supervision? Moreover, why is an underage teenage girl in a strange senior executive member of the cabinet’s bedroom? These are facets to a clear case for why the alleged rapist should be charged. Instead, the President takes a back seat in the process waiting for the Minister to resign on his own volition and denying that he knew about the teenager’s complaint when it was sent to him by a senior member of the cabinet.

It is unbelievable that the father of the nation can stand and watch disgusting, perverted, psychopaths’ prey on our children while he takes the back seat of his responsibility to act decisively as stated in his role to protect and uphold the constitution of the Republic of Guyana. It is unbelievable to think that this will just blow away and everyone will return to their “normal” lives when the psychological damage has impacted both the family and the nation. Is he the President of the world or the President of Guyana?

Yours truly,
Collin Haynes, MPH, MBA

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