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Sep 09, 2012 Letters
Dear Editor,
Under the conditions of “preferential treatment”, I hereby make an application for a second plot of space in your letter pages as I seek to respond to a letter (“Jagdeo observed the ten-year condition attached to the transport for Pradoville I land to the letter”) written by the learned Honorable Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr. Anil Nandlall, and published by the Stabroek News on September 7, 2012, in response to my missive titled “[m]inisterNandlall’s defence of Jagdeo’s Pradoville 11 houselot is puzzling”, and published by the Kaieteur News on September 4, 2012.
In his letter, the Honorable Minister referred to, and restated, his two-year old public clarification on former President Jagdeo adhering to the condition that prohibits, before ten years of acquisition, the disposal of house lots purchase from the Government of Guyana (GOG).
However, the Honorable Minister’s response would have been far more valuable to the public had he not avoided saying under which condition(s) was former President Jagdeo allocated a second house lot having disposed of the first shortly before.
Editor, one of the standard clauses in transports for the purchase of house lots from the GOG states: “Anyone who owns real property is not entitled to purchase a lot. If it is found out that the person had owned real property within the past three years s/he is liable to pay to the GOG or Central Housing and Planning Authority the current market value of the lot or at its option, the GOG will be entitled to repossess the said lot upon the repayment of the purchase money less expenses incurred for repossession.”
Further, Editor, unless, as it seems, the Honorable Minister was/is a student of Jumbie-or Phantom-nomics (a contemporary non-academic discipline that combines the studies of Jumbie and Economics, pioneered and patented by the University of Freedom House, whereby proven mainstream economic theories are turned upside down and fairy-tale ones are birthed.
For example, development is measured by the scarcity of cement (see Stabroek News of April 01, 2006, for an exposition of this theory, written by a potential Nobel Laureate in Jumbienomics, A. Persaud)), then he must have missed the well-articulated letter, by a very close friend of the said Regional Chairman, in response to the Stabroek News’ editorial of October 10, 2011.
In that letter it was made known to the public that the Regional Chairman”is a businessman involved in the real estate arena.” (Stabroek News, October 17, 2011). To argue, therefore, that “[t]he simple and plain fact is that the Regional Chairman could only have been allocated that for which he made an offer to buy [far less than two acres as did former President Jagdeo]”, is “[b]y any standard… befuddling [to proven mainstream economic] logic.”
In fact, it is, by all standards, befitting to Jumbie-or Phantom-nomics. And unless the Honorable Minister provides empirical evidence (or something approximating that) in support of his argument, then he is or must have been a student of the aforementioned discipline.
Editor, the repeated failed attempts by the Honorable Minister to have Guyanese believe that any of the persons entitled to land in Pradoville II, could have, but did not, express like former President Jagdeo, the desire to purchase two acres at GY$5M per acre should be a wakeup call for him that, contrary to the way he seems to think, Guyanese are not devoid of the capacity to think and be accurately informed.
For instance, Editor, in Berbice where I live, scores of persons have indicated to me(not that I forgot, rather it signals that they too have not forgotten) that the Alliance For Change (of which I am an executive member, as the Honorable Minister was seemingly keen to point out) was/is not concerned with the “pension” of former President Jagdeo, per se, but rather with the uncapped (in other words, the unlimited) provisions under “the Former President’s (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act 2009″, and therefore reference was made to the “pension package” that amounts to over GY$3M per month given that, unlike the humble home of former Presidents Cheddi and Janet Jagan, a palace built on two acres of land requires a great amount lighting facilities (thus, a huge electricity bill), will use a great amount of water (hence, a massive water bill), will require a large number of servants in various forms (therefore, a humongous wage bill), and the list goes on and on, all to be paid for by the very poor tax payers of Guyana. No wonder why public servants and cane cutters are denied a decent wage increase.
Editor, in his closing arguments in response to my letter, referred to above, the Honorable Minister enquired: “I wonder what is next.” Permit me, Editor, to convey to the Honorable Minister that Cheddi Jagan is turning in his grave and he should not wonder why. In fact, Editor, Cheddi Jagan is asking that the enclosing walls be shifted outwards, an idea he got from the constant deceptive accusations made (by his disciples that have now betrayed him) during the past corruption debates on NCN, so as to facilitate the countless turns he makes on a daily basis.
Cindy Sookdeo
Region Five, Mahaica/Berbice
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