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Jul 08, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
I read the recent piece about ‘ministerial rascals’ in Guyana and the country being the only one where the government does not act against “horrible wrongdoing by high-ranking politicians in power” and “perhaps the only State in the world where graphic and glaring skullduggery is committed by top serving politicians and party-aligned bureaucrats and there is absolutely no official inquiry”.
I think it may be a case of ‘gamekeeper turn poacher’ or one of ‘appealing from Caesar to Caesar’. Perhaps this all came about by a boy being handed a man’s job to do. He was probably manipulated by elders with their own agenda and did as he was told, leaving the country to pay the price.
Let us not forget that when Janet Jagan took over the reins, she promised that her Government would eventually stamp out corruption, which had become ingrained in people’s psyche. As time went by, there was no let-up and once she departed the scene, corruption escalated, “the nastiness of power” took the form of a free for all, a grabbing spree, a me-first attitude of mind. Guyana was not sleeping, it was just powerless to act against such odds.
Of course, “corruption exists all over the globe”, but to use that as a reason to justify such blatant wrongdoing is naive.
How to stop the rot? That is the question.
Geralda Dennison
Please share this to every Guyanese including your house cats.
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