Dear Editor,
On October 6, in your newspaper, Mr Hydar Ally accused Mr Lionel Peters of misrepresenting the facts regarding the selection of presidential candidates. Mr Ally said: “Since he [Mr Peters] was not a member of the leadership of the party and as such was not privy to what actually transpired, he writes from a position of ignorance of the facts.”
This accusation applies, naturally, to most Guyanese whose opinions reflect a position of ignorance, as they are not PPP leaders.
But it is these people who from a ‘position of ignorance’ are expected to vote on elections day to make PPP leaders recipients of high office. But more importantly, party business is the people’s business.
Today, leaders regard party business as a façade behind which they wilfully conceal information that ought to be disseminated, in order that the public remain in Mr Ally’s “position of ignorance.”
It is because many PPP supporters are in this position that there is so much betrayal afoot in Freedom House. As such, leaders should not be allowed to raise their voices or wag fingers against members of the public for presenting to the public, what the leaders have in the first place denied.
Consider an example. In passing comments, I told Mr Khemraj Ramjattan at a meeting in Queens after his expulsion that he must publish what really happened, to make for an informed public. He promised he would, but failed to do so.
Big mistake. The public continues to suffer because those leaders that compromised their principles in order to curry favour with the principal orchestrator are still being paid for representing people, when clearly they lack the integrity to do so.
As Mr Ally wishes that the public be properly informed, he should make public the names of those PPP leaders who “ratified” the method by which the PPP selects as opposed to elects presidential candidates.
Since these individuals have taken the difficult task of deciding what is best for hundreds of thousands of Guyanese, it is the right of these Guyanese to know exactly who has acted on their behalf. They should produce the names or the many Peters among the public may not let it go.
Yours faithfully,
Rakesh Rampertab