For most folks, after David “The Sanctimonious Gangster” Granger was forced to accept his 2020 election rigging attempt was blown, he slunk back into his home in Pearl, EBD – and hasn’t been seen in public much. He must’ve thought the Yanks- who’d looked the other way when his mentor Burnham routinely rigged elections – would’ve done the same for him!! He forgot “dis time na lang time” – an especially fatal error for a historian!!
But it appears he makes regular appearances on a social media outfit – run by one of the “political sophisticates” who’d advised the Buxton prison escapees to unleash mayhem on the country after 2000. His talks are dutifully reported as “news” by a virtual newspaper, “The Village Idiot” and regaled your Eyewitness over the past months about a “Shurian Conspiracy” – run by the PPP to disrupt the PNC/APNU!! Now, your Eyewitness might be slow on the uptake, but for the life of him, he can’t figure out where the name “Shurian” comes from!!
According to Granger’s latest rant, it all started in the new millennium when the PPP unleashed terror and blamed it on the PNC!! It resurfaced when “The PPP brazenly financed a dissident faction to overthrow the Constitution and install a new Central Executive Committee in July 2014.” Now what happened at the PNC’s 2014 Congress? Aubrey Norton had challenged the incumbent leader Granger for the post. After a group of Lindeners claimed they were prevented from voting and their delegate cards were missing, Norton dropped out of the race, citing a “flawed accreditation process within the party”. He said, “The problems emerged because of the manipulation of the process to ensure the re-election of the incumbent leader, David Granger.”
Granger, of course, as head of the APNU/AFC coalition became President after the 2015 elections, and had the opportunity to change the political culture of Guyana by accommodating the AFC’s Indian Guyanese supporters they’d convinced to switch from the PPP. Granger blew that opportunity, lost the elections and saw himself and his factotums thrown out of the party. He’s now blaming “factions” – which he sees as the bane of the party and the source of the “Shurian Conspiracy”!! As is his wont, he quoted his mentor, Fat Boy, for authority: At the 1st Biennial Congress in 1975, Burnham warned: “To be sponsoring and joining factions in the Party is to indulge in anti-Party activity calculated to weaken…the Party. [F]actions and factionalists are wittingly, or unwittingly, instruments of our enemies.”
Your Eyewitness doubts Granger’s warning of factionalism in the PNC refers to those seeking to unseat Norton. He still sees Leader Norton representing a faction!!
But who the heck is the PPP mole Shury?
…freeness
We Guyanese too love a freeness. Houselots, cash grants, medical vouchers – whatever. Offer it and they’ll scramble for it!! Your Eyewitness is witnessing with wide-eyed amazement the frenzy aroused by the Government’s announcement that it will be doling out $100,000 to every Guyanese eighteen years and older. While the earlier announcement of $200,000 to every HOUSEHOLD was altered because of the arguments as to what constituted a “household” there is as much animated arguments as to who is a “Guyanese”!! Do Venezuelan refugees with “ID Cards” qualify??
But even your Eyewitness was taken aback when he read that over a hundred persons in Reg 7 were allowed to live “free” in Government accommodations by the REO!! Reg 7 is one of our remote locations where Government officials and workers have to be housed because you just don’t have guest houses and hotels all over the place. And these individuals have to pay 10% of their salaries as “rent”.
Jeez…and even this we Guyanese don’t want to pay??
…Police corruption
Your Eyewitness is still baffled at the goings on inside the Police Force over allegations of corruption involving an Asst Commissioner of Police. If the accusations are valid, weren’t there all sorts of signs over the years? Who ignored them?? Or is it systemic??
