Dear Editor,
A growing cloud of skepticism is engulfing the government concerning its ability to function with any legitimacy because of the daily revelations coming out of the Robert Simels trial in federal court in Brooklyn, NY. The PPP government appears to have been less than candid about their connections to Roger Khan and has treated the Guyanese population with contempt.
Let’s for a moment occupy the paranoid parallel universe where the PPP dwells and assume that the witness Selwyn Vaughn and journalist Enrico Woolford have an axe to grind against them. The PPP should explain what grand conspiracy or vendetta attorney Simels, the FedEx manager and/or Myers, the British manufacturer of the spy equipment have against them? This defies logic. One would have to suspend reason to believe the government’s protestation of no knowledge of links to Khan.
The failure of leadership in the PPP government is even more glaring as their record over the past 17 years is held up scrutiny. While the implosion of the PNC has caused them to not be taken seriously as a robust opposition party and AFC Chairman Raphael Trotman correctly stated that the AFC has now become the leading opposition party, all Guyanese must work within the legal framework to remove the disrepute that this government has brought on this nation.
By pointing out the obvious, Trotman voiced what others have whispered for some time now, and that is, the PNC through uninspiring leadership and convenient collusion with the PPP particularly in the case of the parliamentarian recall legislation, relinquished whatever modicum of respect they had from many of their supporters.
In less than five years of existence the AFC has demonstrated more maturity and desire to act as the moral and intellectual bulwark to the PPP’s increasingly decadent behaviour that continues to polarize and alienate not just Afro-Guyanese but many decent-minded citizens of all races. In this context, this would be the opportune time for all decent-minded citizens particularly respectable legitimate business leaders that form the backbone of the commercial sector, to unequivocally speak out against the actions of the PPP government. If harmful behaviour was wrong under the previous government, it is wrong under this government.
Consequently, the opposition parties must go on record by introducing a no confidence motion in parliament. Guyanese must resist the default/automatic reflex to call for international or external bodies to solve their problems. There are legal means by which the government can correct its behaviour and Guyanese on the ground must show the maturity and courage to rise above ethnic differences and craft solutions that show local investment/interest in determining their own destiny and development of their country that the PPP and PNC have miserably failed to do over the past 45 years.
Yours faithfully,
Nigel Jason
