With 12th sitting of Parliament today, it is time to move on with our lives

Dear Editor,
“The United States is closely monitoring the tabulation of votes in Guyana…we join the OAS, Commonwealth, EU, CARICOM and other democratic partners who are calling for an accurate count. We commend CARICOM’s role in seeking a swift democratic resolution, and it is important to note that the individuals who seek to benefit from electoral fraud and form illegitimate governments/regimes will be subject to a variety of serious consequences from the United States”.
Those words were uttered by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking earlier in March 2020 at the State Department. He was signalling another country’s intention to punish all those who directly and indirectly thwarted the democratic process in Guyana, and the US did just that!
What do you expect the concerned country to do? Sit and twiddle her fingers and say your guilty ones are forgiven? Caretaker President David Granger himself had warned, also earlier in March, after the election, “It is my sworn duty as President to uphold the Constitution and keep our citizens safe. I intend to do so. I will not allow political malefactors to hijack our democracy and compromise public order and human safety. Law and order will be maintained.”
President Ali is only following a precedent set by the past President, and is abiding by Granger’s intention to allow law and order to be maintained by bringing to justice all those who had participated in the obstruction of the smooth flow of the election process.
Thank you, Mr. Granger, for your good advice and guidance for President Ali to adhere to and implement. The popular will of the people must never be compromised by fraudulent actions and behaviours, nor by intimidation.
The APNU/AFC Party denied Guyana democracy when they refused to accept the consequences of the NCM since in December 2018. Granger’s appointment of Patterson as GECOM Chairman was unconstitutional. Signing contracts and agreements during December 2018 and August 1st, 2020 is not in accordance with the “caretaker mode.” Attempting to steal an election and illegitimately gain power is a criminal act. Collusion and corruption by embezzlement is fraud. Encouraging and inciting violence is working against the law and being disrespectful of human safety. Organising illegal gatherings and protesters is not abiding with COVID-19 regulations and keeping with the law.
Who are the perpetrators of all that Granger had cautioned against? Only the APNU/AFC Party and Granger himself, who are the delinquent ones, culpable and capable of being inglorious hypocrites of the highest order.
Again, in March 2020, Granger had pleaded with all sides of the divide, saying: “Guyanese are asked to contribute to ensuring that we maintain law and order at all costs. Guyana is a lawful state. We must allow the institutions which we revere, and on which we rely, to work to ensure that there will be a fair outcome to the issue which we now face.” Isn’t this good advice for Joe Harmon, the current “Hammy,” the seemingly tough bully who is a self-imposed “Leader of the Opposition” and proclaiming that he wants to carry the fight to the PPP/C Party in Parliament?
He is a substandard tactician, a technician whose attrition for such a position will only encourage further partition; an arithmetician whose opinion for the election recount result would seriously question his role as an academician; his diabolical ambition is fruition for parliamentary prohibition and, as such, Guyanese admonition for suspicion is in keeping with a tradition composed of an inhibition filled with apprehension.
Would an educated, youthful Guyanese generation, whose members are conscious and serious about being upright in moral dignity and law-abiding as citizens; whose judgements are not derailed by blindness due to discrimination; who are educated to make correct judgmental decisions, and whose minds are scripturally influenced for guidance, seriously consider such an imposter to truly represent their interest and that of this country, especially when considering his unscrupulous past?
Let the games begin. Another “war-break” began with the filing of the election petition yesterday, the Belladrum protest is its existentialism. All the battles fought by the APNU/AFC Party were lost to the PPP/C Party. It is of paramount importance, though, that Guyanese pay heed to the teachings of Granger, a historian, whose fatherly message to this nation can carry a far-reaching effect, especially to himself and his APNU/AFC Party followers.
He said after the election, “Guyanese will continue to live with each other. We must not allow ourselves to be provoked into taking any action which will engender hate or disharmony.” It is in the same vein that Dr. Irfaan Ali had accepted the presidency and has stressed that Guyanese are not separated by class, ethnicity, religion or political persuasion.
Philosophising a prediction, President Ali had surmised, “There is only one future, and that future requires a united Guyana; that future requires a strong Guyana; that future requires every Guyanese to play a part in building our country, ensuring that we leave a better Guyana for the next generation.”
With the 12th Parliament sitting today, all Guyanese eagerly wait for Guyana to once again get rolling under the PPP/C’s mantle, and for the opportunity for the materialisation of both presidents’ dreams. Guyanese need to move on with their lives and to exit their hibernation.

Respectfully,
Jai Lall