…on PPP
Your Eyewitness has already spoken about this dangerous practice of the Government – through its 79-year-old Presidential Adviser/SARA Director/GuySuCo Chairman, DR Clive Thomas – about throwing out massive numbers on how much the PPP “stole” without a scintilla of evidence. The danger lies in other members of the Government and folks out there actually believing the ALLEGATIONS and working up themselves into a lather about it. One cannot fail to sense the seething anger in the letter columns that are inflamed by these allegations.
This is nothing more than seeking to prove guilt through innuendo and slander. Between 2011 and 2015, APNU and the AFC controlled Parliament and they could’ve investigated their claims about the PPP “siphoning off” money from the Government. They had the Economic Services Committee that could’ve done this in real time. The allegations were based on the same assertions Thomas made in his columns in the Stabber News about a “criminalised state”. But they did nothing ‘cause their purpose wasn’t to stop corruption – which exists in any institution – but to stain the PPP with the corruption stain. It worked.
So once ensconced in office, the Government hired some of the accountant types who supported Thomas’ “siphoning” allegations to conduct “forensic audits” of the allegedly looted agencies. Again, all sorts of scandals were hurled even though the audits had more holes than rice colanders/”strainers”!!!! Thomas, who’d been made head of SARU – claimed no one could be jailed cause the laws were inadequate! SARU must now be changed to SARA giving him powers that exceeds those of the Grand Inquisitor of yore.
But Thomas and his Government doesn’t need the new “Bounty Hunter” laws to prosecute thievery – there are enough laws on the books to take care of that right now. They have Westford in court, don’t they? But just like before the elections, the allegations have nothing to do with dealing with corruption – but everything to do with playing politics. Especially when the Government shoots itself in the foot as daily target practice and needs to create some misdirections and diversions.
The fact of the matter is the Government has a very simple method to prove whether the PPP was raiding the Treasury. Before the elections, they said the funds would surface in their clean, corruption-free regime; providing them with billions and billions to fund all sorts of expenditures – such as granting raises and suchlike. So where’s the money? Or are the PNC and AFC thiefing even more than the $306 BILLION they claimed the PPP stole??
Is this why there’s still no Code of Conduct and New Integrity legislation?
All smart flies do end up in the cow’s (messy!) posterior orifice!!
…on referenda
One fella took on Bisram’s assertion that the 1980 Constitution’s unacceptable because it wasn’t approved in a referendum. Fella says referenda are an “idyllic dream”. And furthermore several countries don’t require it. And those that do – like the US and India – had special circumstances. How’d you reason with a fella who dismisses arguments so cavalierly with the retort, “Whatever!!”
Your Eyewitness responds not to the fella – but to those who may seriously want dialogue on constitutional change. It all has to do with how our Constitution was made. The one the British gave us at Independence prescribed referenda – Article 76 – for the changes Burnham wanted to make – to be a “legal” dictator. So he held a referendum in 1978 to do away with the need for referenda – making the same arguments as Bisram’s interlocutor.
Burnham rigged an astounding 97 per cent approval vote – but then went on to include the need for referenda in his new 1980 Constitution!
Which (of course) didn’t need a referendum to approve!! So we follow Burnham’s precedent?
…and under the bus
Well, looks like Cush has been coshed and thrown under the bus by his non-slave/non-indentured foreign friends!
In the bible, a goat (the “scapegoat”) was sent into the wilderness to atone for the sins of its people!
