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Never seen the PPP move so fast to address corruption, thank you USA!
Dear Editor,
The PPP has been in power for almost 28 consecutive years, about the same amount of time the PNC remained in power. I have never seen the PPP move so swiftly to address corruption. Thank God for the United States of America Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Executive Order 13818 and the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
Usually the responses of the President, the Vice President (presumably the de facto President) and other PPP Government, Cabinet and party officials are:
(1) it wasn’t me, it didn’t happen – deny, deny and deny;
(2) use the absence of reports made to the police or another government office such as the Ombudsman office as justification for doing nothing about reported corruption;
(3) blame the Opposition;
(4) justify ongoing corruption by informing the media that the corrupt practice is common place, and they inherited it;
(5) allegedly and reportedly compromise the integrity of investigations and the outcome of investigations;
(6) allegedly and reportedly use fear and other tactics to quit the person(s) reporting corruption difficult by engaging their cronies in police force and other agencies;
(7) slap on the wrist when the situation warrants a serious penalty, and
(8) promote the said person accused of corrupt practices, instead of condemning the alleged behaviour (think Dharamlall, Mae Thomas, Berri Ramsarran, Odinga Lumumba and a whole host of others).
Since we understand now that the PPP is only moved to take action to root out corruption once a high-level sanctions coming from the United States, I encourage Guyanese to not only make reports to the police and government agencies, take evidence and reports of corruption involving government and private sector officials to the appropriate office in the United States of America embassy, the United Kingdom, Canadian and European embassies and online reporting portals.
Sincerely,
C.A. Singh
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