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Mar 07, 2014 Letters
Dear Editor,
Does anyone really believe Mr. Eusi Kwayana actually wants an answer when he inquires “Will someone say whether the MPs know that at the last general election the President’s party polled under 50 per cent of the votes, won under 50 per cent of the seats and yet appointed 100 per cent of the ministers from his own narrowly defeated party. And does anyone believe that all the present (sic) unfairness and (sic) abuse of power and discrimination could be possible with a mixed cabinet?”
What’s brewing? Could WPA’s Dr Clive Thomas’s recent poke at APNU for its failure to pass the money laundering bill be revealing confirmation that their “brother Rupert Roopnarine” will soon transform from their agarbatii incense stick into a mosquito destroyer still smoking ? Can anyone recognize any mischief afoot to inject confusion or will we genuinely find some crossing the floor changes? No doggie has been able to catch its tail even if its spinning velocity is given more gas but they are welcome to try.
“The eye sees not itself but by reflection” says (Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) so let Mr. Kwayana imbibe his own words, as a late blooming constitutional expert to comprehend the legalities by which Guyana’s democracy is governed. It was Mr. Kwayana who himself wrote: “The PPP has a lawful minority President because of the 1980 Constitution (which) they had no part in making…. But the same constitution has a balance, whether some want to accept it or not, to the minority Presidency.
It is the power of the same President to restore balance”. Has anyone now in the WPA,AFC or APNU even the Buxton sage ever consistently advocated the racial balancing of the armed forces and civil service all exclusively funded by taxpayers as their official policy? Both President Donald Ramotar and the Home Affairs Minister are certainly also under eyewitness scrutiny regarding the finality of SWAT’s racial balance. Such type of balance or equality does not concern Mr Kwayana or the AFC which was to make the biggest difference. “The fault lies not in our stars but ourselves that we are underlings “makes Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar such an excellent Guyanese prophet.
In his legendary rush to defend kith and kin, Mr. Eusi Kwayana in the SN of 5-3-14 excoriates both sides of the National Assembly for requirement of FITUG board membership at the Critichlow Labour College (CLC) in return for taxpayer funding. He writes: “I don’t excuse whatever faults the unions have. But it seems quite easy to reach a consensus to bully the unions”. Yeah right! Nice try. It would seem Mr. Kwayana arrogantly feels he is anointed with Papal power to excuse or ratify sins and faults like the Catholic Church selling of indulgences.
With his extraordinary cunning method of madness how quickly Mr. Kwayana changes his camouflage to swiftly lambast the PPP/C government and also daggers APNU who he is behind. In the initial termination of taxpayers funding for CLC Mr. Kwayana charges “The denial was a selfish, heartless act and a breach of what Parliament, that is the National Assembly and the President, had approved in the Appropriations Act”. Furthermore he rails how “Now, without hearing the affected trade union body, the National Assembly has imposed a condition larded with phrases of reconciliation and labour unity”.
Why does Mr. Kwayana find it so repulsive even when the combined National Assembly makes a tiny step to advance anything to do with reconciliation and unity? As if the current political gridlock is not stultifying enough, Mr. Kwayana prefers moving it up by his agenda into the cabinet to be hidden from public eyes. With the Trojan horse safely within, Mr. Kwayana would like us to believe he will permanently have sailed away to imperialist America. Mr. Kwayana’s Brer Anancy-like efforts to get political power has reenergized his expired relevance of doom division and disaster of which he is an accomplished expert.
He knows enough but fails to fully comprehend even as he admits “I know that my letter writing watchmen will be answering this letter and especially the rest of it”. Educated in the last century he has bravely adjusted to the reality that ‘the members of the National Assembly can all count, one, two three. Most of them have calculators”, an educational aid unknown in his time. For those in the opposition promising they will dish out lavish goodies when in government control of the country’s treasury they must really be delusional to believe by illegal reductions (count one, two, three now) they can, like Jesus Christ, feed more than a multitude of both believers and unbelievers with fewer loaves and nonhalal fishes. If less is more, shouldn’t it apply to the cabinet as well?
Such Kwayana-type recalibrations to piggyback onto others to achieve his kind of equality involves imposing guilt, entitlement, division, abuse, and traditionally always demanding a change of the rules in the middle of the contest. The PPP was split in 1955, the electoral system was changed in 1964 from first past the post to PR, overseas and proxy voting became the norm in 1968, rigging elections, changing the constitution in 1980 and forcing Guyana’s best brains to leave has all been done.
In 1964 when the PPP got the largest amount of votes and with the imposition of PR which allowed the PNC-UF coalition to become the new government could Mr. Kwayana explain if senility prevented him from advocating the inclusion of that party in a national front government or equality only matters when it serves his permanent interests?
Has Guyana’s political mess been cleaned up by their solutions? Mr. Kwayana last demanded a fixed permanent election date on the calendar a la the US. No Commonwealth country has such a feature but these demands by “any means necessary” are all designed to destroy the PPP/C and their supporters. It’s either his way or the highway to extinction. Try Federalism to make your paradise a reality.
Sultan Mohamed
THIS IDIOT TELLING GUYANA WE HAVE NO SAY IN THE 50% PROFIT SHARING AGREEMENT WE HAVE WITH EXXON.
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