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Oct 16, 2013 Letters
Dear Editor,
Last week the former sitting Minister of Women’s Affairs found the time to stand behind Ms. Geetanjali Singh quite unaware of the looming social tension under the surface in Guyana. Unfortunately, the narrative of Minister Manickchand was that Ms. Singh is an “attractive unassuming woman”. AND! Thousands of children are failing Maths and English at the CXC in one of the worst performances to date.
If the PPP is allowed to get away with this abuse of power while it continues to under-serve the working class, then this nation will be saddled with a dangerous precedence as a result of this Geetanjali Singh/Ashni Singh soap opera.
We stand behind Ms. Singh 100 percent in securing a job in her field of talent since she is qualified and talented woman that is fit to work but not in an institution that is responsible for auditing the books prepared by a team headed by her husband.
Would the shareholders of Bank DIH Ltd hire Mr. Clifford Reis as CEO, hire his wife as the Internal Auditor and his brother’s company as external auditor? This is the extent of the absurdity and lawlessness that are being imposed on the nation by the PPP.
It is clear that the PPP is bent on continuing this charade between the Minister of Finance and the Audit Office but it is also clear that things will come to a head and very soon. In this last ditch attempt to prevent this nation from further self-destructing, we are calling on President Ramotar to right this wrong and to do so swiftly.
According to the Minister because Ms. Singh is “very quiet and will perhaps never be in anyone’s face”; she has a right to audit the books of the Government in which her husband is the principal official in charge of preparing those books.
No wonder when a former President fooled the nation that he had a first lady and was legally married and allegedly mistreated this woman by forcing her to sleep on the ground floor of State House where the security men bunked this very Minister of Education, who was then the Minister of Women’s Affairs was quiet like a church mouse.
This Minister wants us to believe that because Ms. Singh is a “dedicated wife to a busy professional husband” it qualifies her to audit the books that recorded how her husband spent other people’s money.
And because she is “one of the best young mothers” this Minister wants us to believe that Ms. Singh is not eligible to be in a conflict of interest position. How would President Ramotar feel as a private citizen in the future if Mr. Patrick Harding is made the Commissioner of Geology and Mines and his wife the Minister of Natural Resources in charge of the GGMC?
When a Minister who is responsible for the education of our children defends such an unethical position, one can better understand why our education system is in such a mess, and why UG and the public schools are in shambles.
Let us cut all the hogwash about attack on women since that is a gross untruth; this issue is about ethics, integrity and morality and it has nothing to do with Ms. Geetanjali Singh as a woman or a person.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh
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