Charrandass sold his soul, conscience

Dec 29, 2018 Letters

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Dear Editor,

Please allow me a space in your newspapers letter column to share my views on what has happened and said by the former AFC MP Charrandass on December 21, 2018 pertaining to his “YES” vote in support of the opposition’s No Confidence Motion against the government.
Over the past days a lot is being said by the government, opposition, the public and legal minds and moreover the former MP who is being considered a “Betrayal” to the AFC and the majority of Guyanese at large that is being represented or voted for the coalition government.
If we look back from the time this man joined the AFC to his last speech in the National Assembly during Budget 2018 debates, he degraded and belittled or should I say spoke his soul against the injustices that the PPP did to the Guyanese people.
Let’s take for example his last speech in Parliament where he defended the government’s 2019 budget proposals. This very MP told the nation and the world that in 2019 Region Six will benefit positively and tremendously from transformational changes and developmental works that never took place under the PPP. He went on to identify better roads, drainage and irrigation.
He went on further to praise David Patterson for lighting up the #19 Highway on the Corentyne in Berbice which was never done under the 23 years of the PPP. He went on to praise the said Minister and this Government for reducing the Berbice River Bridge Toll. He explained in detail that the PPP was to be blamed for this heavy duty toll that faces Berbicians.
Further the former MP Charrandass went on to tell the nation in that very speech, that it was the PPP who has to be blamed for the closure of the Rose Hall Sugar Estate. He said that the government paid the workers their severance which is more money than they work during their working years in the industry.
He went on further to say that we (APNU+AFC Government) was giving money to a business that does not bring back any returns. The former MP said in that very breath, that it is not the APNU+AFC government that cripples the industry but that was done a long time ago by the PPP.
So it is very hard to believe that this very MP said that he has voted against this government because of sugar workers. This very MP said that for almost three and a half years, he had to do what the government wanted to him to do.
But he also said he is a successful lawyer, which I won’t dispute but the questions are; Does this successful lawyer have someone writing his speeches when he has to debate in the National Assembly?
It is my firm belief that this very MP is losing his ability to think and remember what’s correct and right for Guyana. Because it was this very MP who used to go on television week after week in Berbice and cuss down the PPP for making Guyana a corrupted nation, for the state of the sugar and rice industries, for the state of infrastructure and making this country poor that people have to suffer.
Didn’t he have a conscience when he was talking as to what had happened under the PPP that this government had to correct? In fact, he praised the work of the government especially the decision to downsize the sugar industry. Only, recently at a function on the Corentyne, this very MP praises the work of the government.
He said that because of what this government has done to the sugar workers make him vote this way. We all know that’s a lie. If he so cares for the sugar workers, why he didn’t resign from the time the downsizing of the industry started or ask the PPP then to bring this no-confidence motion? But I think he was waiting on the benefits from the parliamentary pension and the other benefits available.
This very MP took supporters of the APNU+AFC government from his area the very day of the no-confidence debate to show their support for the APNU+AFC Government.
But he told Kaieteur News via an interview or letter that he hasn’t done anything to develop Region Six. This statement may be true because as an MP you have the mandate to represent the people of your region by going around and listening to their concerns and try as hard as possible to address the issues affecting them.
This MP does not do that. In fact after his day’s work he will call over a few friends and play dominoes until he is ready to take his rest. On weekends he will hardly be in the region and if he is then he won’t move around, so people hardly get to see him.
The only time you would get to see and talk to him is when a top government official or a minister is visiting the region. He will show up and then disappear.
This raised many times with the leadership and the MP always made an excuse and beg to be forgiven.
And the legendary Bob Marley says, “Some will eat and drink with you and su-su pon you”. I find those lyrics well suited to find the latter part of my caption above.
So, Mr Charrandass Persaud when you said you voted with your conscience it was all lies and fake because the looks on your face in parliament and words in your interview with the media after you betrayed the very people you sat with that trusted you were totally different.
Oh and I almost forget to mention that the evidence was clear that you had the PPP watching over your back after you decided with them to sell out.
This government will rise again because they the development that took place in the three short years saw Guyana climbing positively on the world map.

Regards
Abel Seetaram
AFC Member

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