Multimillion-dollar package will cost Granger’s presidency – fmr AFC Executive

Green’s pension

Public outrage over the pension package to be statutised for former Prime Minister Hamilton Green continues to grow, with former Alliance For Change (AFC) Economist and Executive Member Sasenarine Singh openly questioning whether his former colleagues, now coalition partners, will be voting in support of it.
“Will Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan, and Charandass Persaud be voting for this open act of plunder of the Treasury,” is the query of Singh in a recent public statement.

Singh has since adumbrated the belief that Green should not be afforded the multimillion-dollar package since Green was one of the principal architects of the stagnation of Guyana for most of its independent years, in addition to his role as a member of a Government which produced electoral results which clearly did not represent the will of the people.
“So why are we going to pay millions of dollars to people who contributed to the retardation of Guyana and who are clearly undeserving of all these millions,” questioned Singh.
He has since condemned the package prepared for Green, as “one of the most reprehensible and disrespectful acts of abuse of the Treasury by the Granger Administration, especially given the fact that the young people are still waiting for those jobs that were promised in 2015.”
According to Singh, “I once heard a comment in high political circles in 2011: It is the pensions that will cost you the elections… I have seen that these same kinds of pension contributed to a former government losing the elections.”
He has since surmised that “I have watched Guyana’s political development since 1992 and I can safely say that all the conditions are in place to support the prognosis that it is this same pension issue, like the Hamilton Green pension, that will cost the Granger Administration the 2020 elections.”
Singh has since suggested that it is time for the more rational minds in the AFC such as Raphael Trotman “to step up and talk some sense into the political deadwood in the Granger Administration which is hell bent on destroying what is left of that Administration.”
According to Singh, Green at 82 years of age has already earned millions of dollars of pay, pension and perks from the taxpayers for most of our independent years as a nation.
“He lives in one of the best compounds in South Georgetown that does not flood thanks to the steel revetment that surrounds his yard… If one is to reflect on the history of Guyana, one would recognise Mr Green as one of the principal architects of the stagnation of Guyana for most of its independent years.”
As such, the former AFC Executive Members is openly questioning, “why are we going to pay millions of dollars to people who contributed to the retardation of Guyana and who are clearly undeserving of all these millions?”
Speaking directly to his former colleagues in the AFC’s hierarchy, Singh recalled that in October 1992, Moses Nagamootoo, now Prime Minister was quoted as saying that bands “have Freedom House under siege” and the attacks were “planned, orchestrated and directed”.
Singh said in those days, the reporter who was reporting on some of this news was none other than the daughter of the sitting President, David Granger, “so we cannot pretend to not know the facts unless we are playing the fool… We all saw the human firestorm, first hand, which included mass looting that targeted the business district including business houses like that of AH&L Kissoon (who supported and financed the PNC).” He has since posited “what is most disgraceful is that today the Granger Administration, which includes Moses Nagamootoo has the audacity to want to foist upon the Guyanese taxpayer another geriatric payout of $16 million a year when we have not even created one tangible new investment or any mass waves of new jobs for the youths of Guyana… Will Moses Nagamootoo, Khemraj Ramjattan, and Charandass Persaud be voting for this open act of plunder of the Treasury?”