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Dec 08, 2021 Letters
Dear Editor,
Kaieteur News – Someone with the name of Abdool Majeed has written two letters criticising the CEO and the senior management of GuySuCo for their efforts to re-open two of the shuttered sugar factories and to make the corporation solvent. Majeed’s statements are reckless, insipid, wishy-washy and banal, and without merit. His attacks on the CEO are personal vendettas from a bitter, ill-disposed, envious, and inconsequential person. He seems to believe that he has the expertise to solve all the human, structural, engineering and management problems at GuySuCo.
The fact that Majeed’s letters address some of the major issues at GuySuCo suggests that he may be senior management personnel at the corporation who has been part of the team that led to the collapse of the corporation.
For decades, GuySuCo has been insolvent and had to depend on Government subsidies for its survival.
It took the new CEO. Mr. Sasenarine Singh less than a year to end massive corruption/bribery and halted the gravy train that provided a bonanza for the disgruntled and irate Majeed and his colleagues, who have refused to accept the professional changes at GuySuCo, including the internal monthly audit of each sugar factory, the stamping out of corruption/bribery and the consolidation of the procurement department. Instead of supporting the changes, Majeed has opted to oppose them and vent his vexation publicly. Not only is he opposed to the changes and progress being made at the corporation, but he is undermining them.
In other words, managers from individual estates are not allowed to award contracts without approval from the procurement department. The CEO has also reduced the top-heavy staff by almost 50 percent and this along with other vital 21st century structural and managerial changes coupled with the increased price for packaged sugar have reduced the corporation’s expenses by over G$500 million in less than 15 months. It is understood that people in general would resist change, but the changes being made at GuySuCo are positive and they are for the good of the corporation which has reemployed almost 1500 previously laid off employees. For Majeed to write letters to the media under a fictitious name to hide his identity is evil. He has turned his venom on the CEO and the new management staff. He is from the old school who wanted to maintain the status quo to reap the benefits derived from the colossal corruption practices that have led to the insolvency of GuySuCo. We urge the public to ignore this individual who fits the description of a fifth wheel to a coach.
In criticising the leadership at GuySuCo, Majeed is dishonest when he referenced a book written by Nancy Koehn, an historian at Harvard School of Arts and Sciences. In Koehn’s book “Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leaders in Turbulent Times” she addressed the issues faced by political leaders in difficult times. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass are two of those leaders. She did not focus on issues affecting business leaders as suggested by Majeed.
He also stated that several professionals have left GuySuCo, but he did not provide their names or the reasons for their leaving.
The truth is the CEO has taken over a corporation that was insolvent, corrupt, and top heavy and he has worked tirelessly to make it viable, that is why he is the right person to head and lead GuySuCo.
Dr. Asquith Rose
Dr. Vicki Rajkumar
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