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Kaieteur News – Addiction to power, to hold onto it by any foul means, seems to be a special element in the PPPC Government’s approach to extending its life. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is reportedly spending US$50,000 monthly on a US-Based lobbying firm, Continental Strategy LLC (Continental), in an effort to paint a contestant in the upcoming general and regional elections in the worst light. Continental’s job is to sell to the US Congress, via a series of tweets, that Guyanese businessman Azruddin Mohamed is a Nicholas Maduro puppet.
There are slanders and insults, then there are a few other weapons that go beyond those. Branding a Guyanese, as a ‘pro-Maduro puppet’ has to rank among those that go to uncharted depths. Tweets to intimidate and terrorize, while using the tax dollars of Guyanese.
We know from experience that elections in Guyana are not for the weak of spirit. But there should be limits to how low the contestants should go, and there are some places that they should not go. Attaching the tag of being a ‘pro-Maduro puppet’ to a Guyanese is a smear beyond mention. Unless there are some solid grounds on which such an insult, such a grievous wound, could be inflicted, then it must be avoided, so repulsive it is. We are searching for a viler degradation, and can’t find any currently. And for what does, the party in government, the PPPC, proceed on this fateful step, but to retain power, doing whatever it takes.
Whatever the circumstances require, then it will be done, seems to be the settled mantra of the major political party competing in the 2025 elections. When the tax money of Guyanese has to be spent for the scurrilous, then spend it, and not lose sleep over it. When raucous objections and hostile confrontations in broad daylight have to become the norm to block the Mohamed candidacy and getting his message across to listening citizens, then let it be. Citizens in villages are prospective voters, and each one is now a precious commodity to be guarded from the clutches of Mohamed and hoarded for September 1. Therefore, Guyanese watch in amazement from a distance at the spectacle of orchestrated interruptions by supporters of the PPPC in desperate efforts to ruffle the new presence in local politics and derail his political train. If the PPPC is pulling out its hair so frantically locally, there is no telling about how far it is prepared to go overseas.
Ten million Guyana dollars spent monthly for the skills and services of Continental to ambush a presidential candidate. Guyana’s political sickness now medevacked to America, which means it is now before an international audience. This is so much more than about one man’s candidacy in a national contest. It is about a manifestation of the reckless extents to which the PPPC Government would go in its quest to retain power. It is not one of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ finer moments. It is about an environment in which there is a significant segment of the Guyanese population anxious about where the next meal is going to come from, or how they are going to cope with their bills. But there is their government spending the equivalent of $60 million dollars over a six-month period to peddle itself before the US Congress.
According to the PPPC Government’s posture, one of the reasons that Continental has been recruited is to raise Guyana’s profile in the US. It is now obvious that the PPPC Government has not just descended into the pits, it is into low comedy also. Rev. Jim Jones and his People’s Temple raised the profile of Guyana in the US, in a way that all make Guyanese hang their head in shame. Right now, the arrival of ExxonMobil and its own business machinations have plastered Guyana not just across the US, but all over the world. Even when Guyana had its best opportunity to be a winner, it was so pathetic, that it can’t help being a loser. ExxonMobil savages the prospects of Guyanese, and the PPPC Government endorses it, and then goes a step farther. It brings onboard Continental, using tax dollars, to savage a political competitor.
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