Dear Editor,
In the Stabroek News edition of April 8th, 2019, there was a letter from one GKH Lall, which sought to instruct Mr. Mohamed I. Ali (Executive Member of the PPP) upon which plank he should jump.
What campaign is Mr. GKH Lall talking about? There can be no official campaign until general elections are called by Mr. Lall’s candidate, Mr. David Granger.
It was Mr. GHK Lall who said in the 2015 campaign, that Mr. Granger was polite and acceptable (see interview with Chris Ram) and offered his support to him; that is his right as a dual citizen and voter and beneficiary of the Treasury but please do not play with the people’s intelligence and pretend that you mean well for Mr. Mohammed I. Ali or the people of Guyana.
This nation is yet to see the outcome of this politeness that Mr. Lall was referring to in 2015. Is the word polite now being re-defined by Mr. Lall? Is it polite to ignore the Guyana Constitution and not follow the rule of law? Is it polite to unilaterally impose on the nation a GECOM Chairman who has revealed himself as nothing else but a political apparatchik? Is it polite to be untruthful to the youths by taking more than 30,000 jobs from them in three years, in defiance of your promises in 2015?
I was in Guyana in March, 2019 and asked Mr. Mohammed I. Ali some hard questions, one of those being, “Why are you (Mr. Ali) not more on TV explaining your policy measures?” In his wisdom, he asked me, “Has an elections date been announced?”
Mr. Ali further told me that at this time, he is listening directly to the ordinary people in the villages and urban wards of Guyana on a one-to-one basis. His mission right now is to use the data gathered from these conversations to craft a menu of human development policies which can be launched swiftly once his party wins power. The common theme he is hearing is the need to create new jobs sustainably and this is what he plans to do when the occasion presents itself. He outlined for me in detail how he is going to create these 50,000 jobs over five years and from my international experience, I am convinced that it is highly possible.
What is needed is proper programme management of the plan, which is a skillset sorely lacking in Team Granger. So what appears like rocket science to these inexperienced and incompetent minds in Team Granger, is what the rest of the world is doing every second of the day – creating new jobs.
When I was a Project Manager on a CDB Project, I had the chance to observe Mr. Ali’s skillsets and from what I saw, he is a person who has real project management competence and skills, unlike Mr. Granger. This skillset served him well when he accelerated and managed the PPP’s most successful public policy – housing. What the PPP did was to expand the stock of land available for housing by over 100,000 house lots in under 20 years. More than half of those lands now have real homes on them with real families in those homes, who are on a pathway to build real new wealth with their real equity; that is the sort of human development that continues to evade these friends of Mr. GHK Lall.
I was advised that Mr. Ali will be telling his story nationally when Mr. Lall’s candidate, Mr. Granger (who has now been certified after three years as a human development failure), calls the elections. Until such time, Mr. Ali told me he plans to continue with his original plan – deepening his direct bond with the masses.
Yours faithfully,
Sasenarine Singh
