Home Letters President Ali made mincemeat of the PNC at the Leonora outreach
Dear Editor,
H.E. President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali held yet another successful outreach programme, this time at his Leonora residence in Region Three, last Monday from 16:00h. It was attended by a mammoth crowd, representing the eager faces of Guyanese who thronged his lawns in order to interact with their home-grown President and talk face-to-face with him about their personal difficulties and the problems affecting their communities.
Accompanying his Excellency were members of his Cabinet, including Ministers Dr Ashni Singh, Zulfikar Mustapha and Deodat Indar, along with Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Ms. Shannielle Hoosein-Outar, CEO Mr. Saddam Hoosain, and a host of other personnel from the President’s Secretariat.
Personnel from various Government agencies were also present to assist with Guyanese having issues with NIS, water, electricity, land etc.
The Honorable Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha mustered the crowd with his boisterous and vociferous accolades for the grand turn out of residents in the region on such short notice, and thanked them for their enthusiastic presence, which indicated their support for the Government and the PPP/C.
He enumerated on the numerous projects the PPP/C Government has successfully undertaken and completed, along with the many achievements which helped to catapult the nation to being one of the fastest growing nations in this part of the hemisphere, with the highest GDP per capita in less than four years in office.
Minister Mustapha elaborated that the PPP/C has completed its Manifesto as promised during the campaign for the 2020 Election, and has even soared beyond its agenda, as required.
He urged the enthralled crowd, which reflected the diversity of Guyana’s population, to reject those who come bearing gifts of false promises and want to deny the democracy this country is now enjoying under the astute management of the Government.
He also cautioned the crowd to be wary of those who insist on denouncing the positive strides this Government has made since taking office from day one in 2020.
Finance Minister Dr. Ashni Singh could have talked nonstop for his regular 8-hour sermon, but had to be curtailed due to the arrival of the President and giving way for His Excellency’s presentation. Nevertheless, in his short but sensational speech, and with a crowd already fired up, Minister Singh managed to expound on the deficiencies of the past PNC administration when the PNC were in power from 2015 to 2020. The Finance Minister also explained that the PNC had control of the House from 2011 to 2015 when the PPP/C ruled as a Minority Government with less votes than the combined Opposition.
As such, the PNC destroyed Guyana again from 2011 to 2015 when they stifled all of the PPP/C Government’s programmes and did not pass any expenditure to help finance those projects. The Amaila Falls Project and the new Demerara Harbour Bridge could have been a reality by now, had the PNC supported those projects. The PNC’s formative 28 years of reign (1964-1992) had ground the nation to economic bankruptcy. Half of the population, including all races and supporters from all parties, were forced to abandon Guyana and seek greener pastures overseas as they ran from PNC paramountcy, dictatorship, poverty, unemployment, food, foreign exchange and drug shortages, crime, corruption, racism and discrimination.
Minister Ashni Singh embellished on the failures of the PNC Government when then President Granger and gang occupied office in 2015, and he even challenged the PNC to say what they did that were positive and progressive for the people and nation from 2015 to 2020.
He emphasized on the crowd by reminding them to look at the hallmark of the modernization and transformation of Leonora, which is setting the pace of development in the country, and is a trendsetter reflecting the progressive projection of a young nation plotting its way to prosperity.
It was the vernal vigour of a vibrant, virtuous and voracious President Ali who electrified an already stimulated crowd with his dynamic vitality, to send the crowd roaring and clapping in high crescendo. The people were swayed with Dr. Irfaan Ali’s persuasive words, wisdom and wit as he mesmerized the PNC’s senseless insensitivity as they dictate their agenda to stop the development of Guyana.
President Ali proposed his love for the people, the party and the nation, a tradition he inherited from his parents and grandparents, teachings which are profoundly and morally responsible as the catalyst to unite all Guyanese, regardless of background, to build a ‘One Guyana.’
President Ali made mincemeat of the PNC’s feeble but fearless attempts as they tried their stained hands to taint the immaculate image of the PPP/C and the Government since Dr. Ali and his Cabinet came into power in 2020. He refuted their deviousness when the PNC tried unsuccessfully to play the race card to divide and conquer the people. That did not work because Guyanese saw through their mischievous plan. Guyanese became politically conscious especially since the 2020 Elections, when the PNC attempted to rig the elections but failed miserably. Since then, many members have left the PNC Party and crossed the floor. Many more Guyanese are now professing their intentions to vote for the PPP/C rather than the PNC. They listen to their conscience and are convicted by the reality of what the Government is doing for all Guyanese.
When the race card failed, President Ali charged, the PNC resorted to spreading lies and propaganda. But he cautioned Guyanese not to fall prey to their deceit, and to expose the wounds created by them. Daily, the PNC are found to be wanting, and their corrupted agenda reveal their intentions, dedicated to dismantling all that the PPP/C Government have pained for the nation and people.
President Ali reiterated that the PPP/C Government will always lead with a vision and a mission, which guarantee that the PPP/C is committed to building Guyana; unlike the PNC, which is bent on destroying Guyana.
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall