Dear Editor,
Pilferage of the treasury and other state funds by the coalition APNU/AFC Government is being revealed moment by moment, sector by sector, Ministry by Ministry; and it is apparent that “The good life” the coalition parties promised the electorate pre-2011 and pre-2015 elections did fructify – for their Cabinet members, family members, cronies, financiers, et al.
APNU/AFC coalition Government obviously (mal)administered Guyana, with no defined economic plan or social development programme based on coherent studies of the dynamics that would eventuate into their promised “good life for all”.
According to Dr Bharrat Jagdeo, speaking at one of his weekly press conferences, “…the (coalition) Government has been sponging off the billions” left in the National Treasury by the former Administration, as well as the achievements of the PPP/C in almost every area of social and economic life.
From the inception of their governance, the APNU+AFC Government embarked on a nationwide witch-hunt of those whom they perceived were PPP/C leaders and supporters – even technocrats who served under the PPP/C administration.
One of their first acts after assuming office was to fire 2000 young people from Amerindian communities, while simultaneously awarding to themselves hefty salary increases. Their racial and political discrimination, their blatant corrupt actions, their victimisation and witch-hunting of former Government officials and PPP/C supporters amounted to economic genocide, and assumed proportions of a gargantuan persecution pogrom.
Post-election gerrymandering and posturing with the clear intention of rigging the elections, even as the nation was assailed by a deadly pandemic that left the Guyanese people from every community vulnerable to the point of starvation, created a vacuum in the existential dynamics of most working-class Guyanese, which should have been filled by any caring Government. Instead, they were appropriating hundreds of millions of state funds to encourage their supporters to engage in mass protests in the midst of a lockdown and curfew.
But, in or out of Government, the PPP was/is historically a people-caring party, and President-elect Dr. Irfaan Ali stepped up to the plate. He dispersed teams countrywide to share masks to protect people from infection from the COVID-19 virus, and shared food packages to save the poor people from starvation.
His Excellency President Irfaan Ali has already demonstrated that he would not merely promise, but he would deliver to all Guyanese “the good life,” wherein every man, woman and child would reap the harvest of Guyana’s bounties.
Yours truly,
Attiya Baksh
