Dear Editor,
J.K Rowling’s ‘Dolores Umbridge’ would be proud of Anil Nandlall’s attempt to intimidate and outlaw the Guyana Human Rights Association; for in revealing the GHRA’s non-compliance with the Companies Act 1991, Nandlall has gone where even Burnham did not tread in trying to shut the vital civil society organization down.
Editor, the legitimacy of the GHRA (or any other Civil Society actor) comes not from compliance with the Companies Act but rather from its voice on issues that affect Guyanese.
Like Dolores Umbridge, Anil Nandlall can nail as many new ‘rules’ to the walls as space allows and take umbrage at the outstanding fees he claims are owed to the Government of Guyana but he cannot stop the nation and the international community from recognizing the GHRA as a legitimate voice; in fact, this grasping action of the PPP/C Minister of Legal Affairs has legitimized the GHRA far beyond any payment of fees to a Government agency ever would or could.
They don’t teach the Law of Unintended Consequences at Hugh Wooding but they should and call it Nandlall/Umbrage 101.
Sincerely,
(Name and address supplied)
