Disappointed with corruption, incompetence of administration

Dear Editor,
I usually refrain from responding to the utterance of Tacuma Ogunseye since I was advised that he is on the payroll of a Government that today has chosen to bring forth this anti-working class 2017 Budget. If this is the case, then he is no friend of the working class. Has Tacuma totally divorced himself from the revolutionary street corner politics of Rodneyism in exchange for gold coins?
By way of this 2017 Budget, these political elitists think they can abrogate the power to legislate what is right for the working people without even offering them an opportunity to engage in the process. Clearly if the workers were consulted, they would have never recommended a VAT on water and electricity.
But untruth cannot stand and that is why I chose to engage Tacuma today, which from my perspective will be an exception rather than a norm since I do not deal with rabid propagandist peddling their wicked agenda. For Tacuma’s education, let us bring some truth to the conversation.
First off – I am on record as combatting the PPP since 2008 on the issues when I observed that they were separating from that rich Jaganite political struggle of working class empowerment. So even though Tacuma is trying his very best by way of his covert racism to stitch me to the PPP, the fact remains that I have not visited Freedom House since 2008 or engaged with any PPP executive member in any 1-2-1 conversations since 2011. The last conversation I had with a PPP executive member was with Irfaan Ali, someone who I still call a friend today. At the UG debate, he said to me “Sase, I am very disappointed that you have joined with Ramjattan”. We have not spoken since but know our personal friendship will never be compromised by our politics. Likewise, I shall always call Khemraj Ramjattan my friend but that does not mean professionally I cannot call him out for the “dotishness” he is engaged in today.
Actually I was told by many that my record of standing up to the PPP with political scientist Dr Euclid Rose during 2010-2015, was a million times more effective at energising the population than what was practiced by the aloft politicians in the then PNC led opposition. Though many kept telling me “Sase look what your change has brought”, my response has always been, “renewal and change in politics is critical and necessary for reawakening of a nation”. Of course we the people are disappointed with the high level of corruption and incompetence under the Granger Administration and their failure to economically transform the nation which would redound to the benefit of the workers of Guyana. But we must accept we made a mistake since it is clear as day that the Minister of Finance and his cabinet colleagues as a collective are a total disappointment.
I was wrong to have expected any better from the Granger Administration who clearly have a deficit of transformational ideas to expand the wealth of the nation. Rather, what we have in our midst is a cabinet cabal that is focused on friends and family just like the Donald Ramotar Government.
What is shocking is that after only 18 months, we have had some 20 financial scandals in Guyana under President Granger. What kind of a man sits on top of such a ponzi scheme?

Sincerely,
Sase Singh
Maryland, USA