Dear Editor,
All right, all right. All the President’s men are innocent, with clean hands and hearts.
Perhaps they are talking with what the Jesuits used to call “mental reservation,” that is, they may be concealing information which is not theirs, but involves “superior orders” from higher up. This is where Minister Rohee’s memory comes in so useful. There may be an “intellectual author” – a phrase we owe to President Castro.
In a letter in early June I said, “a third possibility is that there were twin machines…”
The Minister named could not spend the money from official sources to import the disputed items without higher approval. At least one of the items ended up in the possession of the well-known accused in New York. President Jagdeo has “assured” the nation more than three times that he knows not that man.
To be fair to his ministers, will the President give the nation one or more of the following assurances:
that he first heard of the disputed item after the arrest of the well armed and equipped vigilante group at Good Hope, in December, 2002;
that he had no part in authorizing expenditure on the disputed spyware from the United Kingdom or any other country;
that if he authorised a minister to act, the name of the minister is, or is not, the one made public in the New York court;
that he has no idea how the expenditure was authorized;
that the expenditure was, or was not, recovered by the government from any citizen;
that after news in the press that an agent of the company had arrived in Guyana and departed from Guyana he ordered an investigation of the immigration records;
that he found nothing of public interest to report as a result of giving that order.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
