You can fool some of the people sometimes but not all the time
Dear Editor,
“I say no to silence.” A conversation with the conscience clarified any clouded controversies, contradictions and convoluted comments which may have contorted a contagious constituency. The time is right, ripe and ready for any correction. It is not too late for others to join the bandwagon. So many have done away with their past, shed the PNC cloak to share the PPP/C umbrella as the rod of correction. Wisdom prevails to finally show those who were misled, the light at the end of the tunnel.
The marauding People’s National Congress, masquerading as the victim rather than the wrong doer, find themselves marooned as evildoers in an unfriendly international community, branded, banished and banded as professional, seasoned and unabashed election riggers! The cabals have been fingered red-handed in the cookie jar and a few bad men and women are now facing the heat, accused of being miscreants. Changing names and faces do not change their habits.
A Commission of Inquiry (CoI) headed by Chairman Stanley John, (Retired Justice of Appeal), into the General Elections of March 2, 2020, has found that ‘shockingly brazen attempts’ were made by Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield; Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers; and Returning Officer (RO), Clairmont Mingo, “to derail and corrupt the statutorily prescribed procedure for the counting, ascertaining, and tabulation of votes for the election”. The report also stated that the three were also found “guilty of attempting to stymie the declaration of the election results for the purpose of ‘stealing’ the elections.”
Election 2020 was the mother of all elections which finally settled the dust for the PNC as the world at large with local, regional and international observers saw for themselves how the unscrupulous PNC brazenly attempted to pull the wool over everyone’s eyes in a callous manner in their impoverished attempt to manically rig the election by manipulating the voting figures to arrive at a result in the PNC’s favour.
Head of the OAS observer mission to Guyana’s March 2nd elections, Bruce Golding, (a former Prime Minister for Jamaica), reported that the ongoing recount process has exposed glaring instances where the figures presented by Returning Officer of Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, were clearly fiddled. On presenting a report on the preliminary findings of the mission to the Organisation of American States (OAS) Permanent Council, Mr Golding said, “I have never seen a more transparent effort to alter the results of an election.” He continued, ““You know it takes an extraordinarily courageous mind [he gave a hint of a laugh as he said those two words] to present fictitious numbers when such a sturdy paper trail exists.”
As surrogates from the “man who made Satan cry”, the PNC were crafted as a party under racial lines to divide and rule as “Leader or nothing”. Jessie Burnham warned, “Beware of my brother Forbes.” From inception, the PNC has never won a free and fair election. The negative elements of corruption, collation and corroboration were always deployed to impact a return to power. The kool aid fountain flows freely and profusely with their propaganda to poison the naïve and gullible ones.
The sound of silence resonated on deaf ears as the unilateral minds from the PNC members remained frozen as they refused to recognise, acknowledge and accept truth, honesty and dignity. Morality was, is and will forever be the missing element when factoring the equation of political finesse, legal compliance and human behaviour, to say the least!
Silence is no longer golden in the PNC’s arena having experienced the reverse Midas touch from Burnham days through to Granger days. The current leadership has no footing and is a rudderless ship sailing in a stormy sea. No wonder so many are waking up to the fresh, sweet and enticing smell of the familiar, favoured and flavoured fame of the PPP/C.
You can fool some of the people sometimes but not all the time. Soured Guyanese are surely sobering up to the fact that they have been taken for a wild goose chase ride for too long and it is time to speak up and speak out against the PNC who has had its knees on the necks of Guyanese too long. The PPP/C has a proven track record as the winning horse. Why take a chance when all the odds are stacked up against a losing PNC?
