Dear Editor,
The freeing of Dr Jennifer Westford and Ms Margaret Cummings is another failure in the latest witch-hunting expedition of this Government, as well as another nail in the Coalition’s coffin. They had instituted trumped-up charges, and were further embarrassed by a no-case conviction statement from a magistrate.
I do not know how many more trumped-up charges this Coalition must pursue for them to hear those embarrassing words, “You have no case”; but such is the sorry situation of this bunch we have for a Government, where they would not accept the fact that their incompetence is the real problem, and not the PPP/C, who ran a successful Government, one based on sound economic principles and one that had as its benchmark above board management.
So, to earn a conviction of any kind on any one of the PPP/C administrators is a definite no-no. The prudent management of state funds during the PPP/C era dictated that they follow the straight and narrow, so I am convinced that all of these witch-hunts would turn up empty.
The Coalition, when in Opposition, represented a conglomeration of parties whose sole aim and purpose was to get the PPP/C out of office. So they embarked on a vicious campaign call of “corruption! The PPP/C is corrupt.” This followed a mass appeal that there would be mass incarceration of “all” PPP/C personnel. So, at the inauguration of that very same coalition, a financial audit was set up to check on the books to unearth all financial improprieties, then round-up all PPP/C so-called fraudsters and put them in jail. To date, that has not taken place, so what we are witnessing here with this last dismissal case is a mad scramble to get a conviction somewhere somehow. Jaipaul Sharma is hard pressed to bring in someone guilty. This is the million-dollar question he is faced with: How can he get a conviction?
So, he, in his desperation, is calling for a reinstitution of charges against the two former PPP/C officers. What an oddity!
But let me remind Sharma of a few things: it was this very same Junior Finance Minister who, after being paid millions to conduct audits into the former Government’s accounts, said there was no evidence of misconduct or embezzlement of public funds. I am sure folks are familiar with those statements. So how can Sharma now expect Westford and Cummings to be guilty of anything when he was the one in the first place who cleared them of wrongdoing? It just does not make any sense.
In the same vein, it does not make any sense to re-institute charges against the two, because the same result would prevail. If anyone should face the heat, it should be Sharma; because to so brazenly drag these two fine ladies to court, and after wasting millions of taxpayers’ money he cannot get a conviction, Sharma is the one who is plain guilty, and should be thrown in jail for peddling lies.
But as the situation unfolds, the Government is not giving up. It is prepared to waste taxpayers’ millions in another shot in the air with this political manifesto of massive corruption under the PPP/C Government, without a shred of evidence to support their claim.
Finally, Sharma is digging in his heels, seeing time is running out on him and his Government to prove that “corruption” fairytale story true. Sharma, for his own part, is also at his wits’ end to earn his keep as “a minister” in the Coalition. He must show some degree of “relevance” in that coalition of sorts, but what he has to understand is that a lie is a lie, and no amount of talk can change it. I rest my case.
Respectfully,
Neil Adams
