Dear Editor,
Late last week President Irfaan Ali, explained what was very probably going to be an extended process for the distribution of the $100,000 into one that was simple and straightforward, could easily be followed by any adult.
The government was in possession of an already defined set of recipients, public servants and pensioners. These he explained were easily verifiable and would receive their $100,000 before the end of November via payment to their bank accounts. The government would then work through neighbourhoods around the country to pick up and verify the rest of the population. Agreed. Nothing to argue about.
I was barely able to catch Ashni Singh’s new declaration this Wednesday on disbursing the $100,000 grant, and reading it brought to mind a host of questions, the first of which is: Is Ashni in a face-off with Mr. Ali, overwriting all the president explained in injecting the onerous, lengthy and costly three stage episode of verifying all citizens, even including public servants and pensioners already on the government payroll, with the added nuisance of taking pictures even as he admitted that recipients will have their national IDs scanned in his new process, verifying the information collected, and then cutting checks for everyone, including public servants and pensioners?
Editor, I am kindly asking President Ali to step in and try and clear up the mess of unnecessary work created by Ashni and help Guyanese get their $100,000 grant sooner than later.
Sincerely,
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