Imagine the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) – which flaunts it was formed in 1889 – calling for an “INDEPENDENT” investigation into corruption in the Police Force – which was formed in 1839. They have been around! In their release, the GCCI didn’t even use the fig leaf of “allegations” to spare the sensibilities of the GPF – “As the body responsible for upholding and enforcing the laws of Guyana, it is REPUGNANT that the very individuals who have been empowered to maintain law and order in the country are engaging in malpractices, which brings to fore questions of the GPF’s credibility and objectivity.” Well…well…well!!
Normally, these two bodies usually have a symbiotic (incestuous?) relationship of mutual backscratching. Matters have clearly gone waaay beyond the fried rice the worthies of the GCCI would’ve been supplying to the Police over the years. Not that fried rice has been pulled off the menu – the swollen bellies overhanging almost every policeman’s belt offer AMPLE proof of that!! It’s just that the Police have much more on their plates recently!! One hears of HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS laundered through Police Credit funds!! Hundreds of pounds of ganja were transported in police cars and all sorts of other shakedowns.
Even the normally phlegmatic Min of Home Affairs was driven to utter his frustration on police corruption – at the commemoration of the 185th anniversary of the formation of the GPF, no less!! “Police must help people. Police must not extort people. Police must not wait for things to build up and get worse and then intervene only to put our fine people in a situation where they have to pay money, where they have to pay bribes. This must stop. And the police commanders and others who find themselves in authority must not think that arriving at the job that they need to award and reward themselves and walk around with plenty of gold and diamonds around the neck and the fingers. If they have that, it means they are men who could be bought. I can buy you because that’s what you like. And you flaunt it. It must stop…” Whew!!
Now what the heck’s going on?? Every Guyanese knows the Police were -and are – on the take. So it gotta be the scale that’s sticking in everybody’s craw!! So what to do?? No use saying there gotta be reform of the GPF – that’s too mild. There MUST be – as they say in business – a complete “cancel and replace” of the institution!! But that’s easier said and done, innit??
Just think of how many times this has been attempted in the last forty years – starting with Hoyte forming the Black Clothes.
And look how THAT turned out!!
…on Mad Maduro
Well, talking about corruption – let’s take a gander at what’s going on with the elections scheduled for next Sunday over the Mad Maduroland!! Polls show he’s behind the real Opposition – not the ones he’s sponsored!! – by over 30% points!! So the question is since we know he ain’t gonna be steppin’ down, how exactly will be try convincing the world that he won the elections “free and fair”??
The method the PNC tried over her in 2020 can’t work for him – there he can’t use spreadsheets and bedsheets since they have all voting machines. The way he’ll probably go is to launch the violence he’s already announced THE OPPOSITION’S planning!! Take his doody and rub it on the Opposition’s bumb!! Under cover of the ensuing pandemonium, he’ll probably have the army – which is in his camp through bribery etc – “restore order”. And not so incidentally take control of the ballot boxes!!
Your Eyewitness doesn’t think, as some fear, he’s mad enough to attack Guyana – after Lula fired that shot across his bow!!
…the AFC’s campaign
Whatever you may think of Nigel Hughes’ maths, you gotta feel for him having to knock himself out trying to perform the 2nd resurrection in 2000+ years – on the “Dead Meat” party he inherited!!
