Dear Editor,
According to Walter Rodney, “In more modern versions of dictatorship, the absolute ruler has to fabricate an elaborate cult of the personality to prove that he is more intelligent, more potent and generally superior to any other human being.” Forbes Burnham, our Caribbean ex-dictator, convinced himself that he could continue to rule over the Guyanese people without winning any elections.
One continues to see this madness as the past two decades of the PPP/C governance continues to be littered with massive corruption and there seems to be no end in sight.
Can we remember the 1994 stone scam that caused the people of Guyana to lose some $165 million according to the audit report? The main players in that fraud were allowed to continue to serve in the public service in very sensitive and senior positions for years, some still in the Ministry of Finance with no justice for the taxpayers who had to pay the bill. Was this the start of the administrative breach under the PPP which has now come full circle with the loss of $4,500 million being defined as an administrative breach rather than criminal?
Remember we lost some $600 million under the ‘Fip’ deal on Amaila and now we stand to lose some $800 million on the speciality hospital deal, and maybe more if the Surendra pump deal evaporates.
Mr Khemraj Ramjattan was so correct to question this deal years ago for non-transparency, while the graveyard of the Chronicle newspaper and other PPP-controlled media houses documented the attacks by the likes of Ms Gail Teixeira and Mr Clement Rohee who labelled Mr Ramjattan as “anti-national and anti-patriotic” for his questions. Today Mr Ramjattan has been vindicated.
Yours faithfully,
Sase Singh
