Dear Editor,
So, now we have this great PNC building demolition mystery. For the sake of overall tranquility, I hope that it doesn’t deteriorate into an unsolved mystery, another of those cold cases that are warm to the touch. The story has taken some surprising twists and turns, which I peer past to see if I could end up with a party of interest. Political works just fine.
Right off the bat, the PPP said that the building is not the PNC’s, but belongs to the State. Why even go there? Was that really necessary, considering the rawness and abruptness of developing overnight circumstances? In less than a minute, the PNC’s counter came. Not so fast, gents, it is ours, has been for donkey years, and the proof is there. Somebody has something wrong here, and it is not I, folks. As Friday crept towards the murk of twilight, the Vice President came out with a declaration. According to the Vice President don’t look at the PPP Government, don’t even think of trying to pin that tail on this turtle. Since the People’s Progressive Party and the PPP Government are one and the same, then my conclusion is that the Vice President is on to something, both party and government are free of taint. By process of arithmetic, this only leaves three suspects standing.
First, there are those demolition men, who could have been acting on their own. Let me say this: it is largely one kind of people, with one kind of affiliation that comes into these levels of business results with taxpayer dollars doing the trick. Who could connect dots to whom? There is ‘plausible deniability’ which I think was what all Guyana just heard from the highest place in this land. Why would men with sledgehammers and other wrecking tools even bother to cart away PNC paperwork, as in its record of membership and other such sundries? I mean people are constantly short, but nobody is that short in Guyana (as yet) to stoop to pilfering paper. Now things are looking up, and they don’t look too favourably in the direction of Lacytown.
I could understand the 11 barrels of stuff, but PNC membership records, is somebody kidding? So, now I think that my whittling away at this demolition haze has brought me to two places, and neither of which will be looked upon favourably in some circles. I point a first finger at possibly rogue elements in the ruling PPP, who could be the covert intellectual authors of this deplorable and unpardonable act. If that sounds like the American Embassy, then it is a new and dubious honour with which to live. Concerning rogue PPP elements, I offer the Vice President this pass: he may not know, may not be as much as in control as he figures, though that sounds hollow, even to me.
So, who is now left, after all this sifting through the pile of wood, and the bigger piles of missing paper, and scorched feelings? As hard as this is to put in the public domain, I still am duty bound to upstairs to do so. There is only the PNC. If everyone else claims clean hands and innocence, by default, there is only the PNC. Last, since a minister in the PPP Government has a well-earned reputation due to experience in the demolition field, I suggest seeking some expert help from him to get to the bottom of this great PNC building demolition mystery.
Sincerely,
GHK Lall
