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Apr 25, 2016 Letters
Dear Editor,
I am hereby taking this opportunity to comment on what is to my mind the fiasco of the apparently secretive appointment of Brian Tiwari as a ministerial advisor on business by Minister Joseph Harmon.
There is a saying that justice must not only be done but must appear to be done, but that appointment reeked of a sense of rank injustice. I believe that the appointment of Mr. Tiwari by Mr. Harmon was a very huge blunder and shortsightedness by the minister.
Although the decision was, thankfully, reversed by President Granger the repercussions will reverberate for a long time within the coalition. I feel that the seed of distrust has been effectively planted among its ranks. I also perceive a great difficulty in the minister fully recovering a stance of integrity in the eyes of his peers and of the Guyanese public.
The fact is that Mr. Tiwari himself has come under the microscope for a number of failures related to his many lucrative public projects, and the land sale scandal at Providence which was revealed by the commission of enquiry into the fraudulent operations at the Central Housing and Planning Authority.
But I have to hand it to Mr. Tiwari, for he has displayed great cunning in seemingly jumping ship soon after the general elections which saw the coalition achieving victory. I believe that his restoration of the Independence Arch on Brickdam, which made all patriotic Guyanese feel proud, and other clean up initiatives undertaken by him free of cost, shows that he is no mean strategist.
Tiwani’s ultimate role may have represented the proverbial ‘cat among the pigeons,’ maybe strategically planted by the past administration to cause dissension and havoc among the coalition. And maybe his so called parting of ways with the P.P.P. /C may have just been a ruse to make him acceptable to the present administration, the former, obviously anticipating the possibility of losing at the polls. Some members of the present administration may have gullibly fallen for this probable deception.
Professor David Hinds in one of his recent articles wrote of the incredible transfer of Guyana’s resources to a tiny cabal. To my mind Tiwari would fit comfortably into the elite group which represents this cabal. I would hazard a guess that the philosophy of this cabal may be summarized into two simple but profound statements:
(1) Everyman has his price and as such anything or anyone can be bought, once the price is right.
(2) Money talks and bullst… walks.
By this philosophy the cabal reasons that with the billions that they have plundered this country with their various schemes, they can run the country from behind the scene, paying out which to them are mere pittances to the willing, including and especially public officials, in order to accomplish their goals.
It is therefore very important that this administration, if it doesn’t want to appear to be the feeble, inept puppets of the cabal, acts decisively on behalf of the people of Guyana, by prosecuting all those who are culpable and also to reverse all corrupt transactions.
The credibility of this coalition government hangs on a just, decisive response, as a matter of fact, the relevance of this administration, to those who took the time and made the effort to vote them into office, would be called into question.
As a result of such a scenario, President David Granger will unfortunately and unwittingly be relegated to being a one term president, and it would be back to square one for the poor, decent, honest people of this nation, who will have been despairingly caught between a rock and a hard place.
Concern Guyanese
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