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Oct 10, 2010 Letters
Dear Editor,
It is amazing that with the spate of deadly violence erupting on his watch, the Minister of Home Affairs in his capacity as a member of the PPP Executive and Central Committee, could find time to write letters to the press, in an effort to divert the people’s attention away from his incompetence and the lawlessness that now rules the land.
In a letter, “It is hypocritical of the WPA and PNC…..”(SN, October 9), Minister Rohee decided to weigh in on a recent statement by Rupert Roopnaraine, that implicated the WPA in the accumulation of weapons prior to the death of its founder and leader, Dr. Walter Rodney; and in a startling admission, Rohee said, “The WPA’s leadership at that time never took the PPP into its confidence to mention its predisposition to such subversive actions on its part. But political intelligence generated over time by the PPP provided sufficient prima facie evidence at the time to conclude that the WPA had embraced and embarked on other forms of struggle that were miles apart from the PPP’s…..the PPP was ridiculed, mocked at and mauled politically by those who felt that it should have picked up the gun and fought arms in hand to remove the PNC from office.”
I don’t know if Minister Clement Rohee is smart enough to realise that he has just implicated the PPP Executive with knowledge of subversive activities to overthrow the PNC Administration by force of arms. Did Rohee, Dr. Jagan or any other member of the PPP Executive see the need to fulfill their civic responsibility by reporting this information to the Ministry of Home Affairs or the police at that time, or were they just waiting for the bloodbath to start? Surely this insurrection would have benefitted the PPP, as the two predominantly black parties would have destroyed each other.
But our ‘brilliant’ Minister did not stop there, playing the fictional Detective Sherlock Holmes, he arrived at this erroneous conclusion: “Perhaps in an effort to be consistent with this political somersault, Dr Roopnaraine is telegraphing to the leadership of the PNC that he is no longer supportive of armed struggle in Guyana and he wants the current and future leadership of the PNCR to know that…we now know that there are two sets of firearms out there that were illegally acquired: one set by the PNC and the other set by the WPA, both of which have not yet been accounted for.”
If this statement was made by any other minister, it would have been cause for great concern, for it strongly suggests that the PNCR may be contemplating an overthrow of the PPP/C Government by force of arms… ludicrous!
Look, General Election is fast approaching and the Presidency is up for grabs. Prospective Presidential Candidates can be expected to say and do things that may improve their chances of being selected, but fear mongering will not work this time Mr. Rohee.
The problem that will haunt Minister Rohee in his Presidential bid and the PPP/C in the General Election next year, is trying to explain: Why wasn’t more done to rid society of all the corrupted police officers, magistrates and other officials who would willing take a bribe to put dangerous criminals back on the street; to inflict death, terror, pain and suffering on the Guyanese people?
Is it just the a broken system that would allow officials to put greed above duty, or were these criminals released to protect the identities of those in power, under who’s instructions they were simply following?
Harry Gill
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