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AFC leaders raking in millions utilising extortionPDFPrintE-mail
Written by KWAME Mc COY   
Thursday, 05 September 2013 20:29

 

A worrying trend is persisting among the leaders of the Alliance For Change, (AFC) who continue to misuse their position and parliamentary privilege for personal/selfish gains. The recent revelation of Mr. Nigel Hughes and his wife Cathy’s employment with Sithe Global, the company contracted to build the Amaila hydro project is testimony to the unprofessional conduct of the AFC leaders.

 

These leaders tend to target national projects for attacks/criticisms as a way of forcing investors of these projects to hire them and thereafter cancel their attacks/criticism. We have seen time and time again, AFC leaders raking in millions utilising the extortion approach. We must be reminded that extortion is a form of bribery, an act of obtaining money or other favours by the abuse of one's office or authority. 
 
We may all recall the vehement attacks by the AFC leadership against Fip Motilall who was contracted to build the road into Amaila. After Mr. Motilall ended up hiring AFC Member of Parliament, Cathy Hughes, those attacks/criticisms vanished. Since then we have not heard anything negative from the AFC camp against Mr. Motilall.   
 
The leader of that party, Mr. Khemraj Ramjattan seemed to have been performing a lobbyist role, misusing his parliamentary privilege when he launched an offensive against the specialty hospital because his client Fedders’ Lloyd did not win the bid for the construction of that facility. If his client had won the bid, the AFC would have abandoned its offensive against the project. 
 
Similarly, the attacks/criticisms against the Marriott Hotel project by the AFC are aimed at protecting the interests of its financier, the owner of the Pegasus Hotel, in an attempt to shield him from further competition in the hotel sector. 
 
There are many other stories bringing into question the credibility and integrity of those associated with the AFC, including Moses Nagamootoo, Anand Goolsaran, Mark Benschop, Gehard Ramsaraoop, Sasenarine Singh, among others. 
 
The employ of such clever ‘hustler’ tactics from among those in the leadership of this small political party, are at the least appalling, especially when they try to present themselves as holier-than- thou.
 
Isn’t it hilarious that the AFC in seeking to wriggle out of an obvious embarrassment due to the latest scandal involving the Hughes, now tries to confuse us with the need for a code of conduct which it boasted of having before now anyway? 

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Originally Posted by Cobra:

Isn’t it hilarious that the AFC in seeking to wriggle out of an obvious embarrassment due to the latest scandal involving the Hughes, now tries to confuse us with the need for a code of conduct which it boasted of having before now anyway?

AFC will always make adjustments and changes which they should have had initially as an incorporated organization.

FM

Dear Editor, As usual, Kaieteur News ‘buss the bag’ on the nasty, corrupt, degenerate PPP banditry and misuse of taxpayers’ money. The PPP has been lying to Guyanese all along on the Amaila Falls hydro project. All along they adamantly stated the government is investing only US $100 million when in fact, the PPP was secretly investing US $157.2 million and is providing a guaranteed US$36 million debt reserve for GPL. There are burning questions the Guyanese people are asking of the PPP now in light of these revelations. Who owns the US $57.2 million the PPP government lied to the nation about and tried to hide from the public? Is it owned by the people of Guyana or by individuals or companies linked to the PPP cabal and the soup drinkers connected to the oligarchy? If owned by the elites – who are they? What are their names? What corporate entities are they hiding under? Who is putting up this money? If this US$57.2 million came from the taxpayers of Guyana, why the secrecy, hiding and lying about using it? Was it hidden to enable the profits and returns on that US$57.2 million to be taken and secreted away without the Guyanese people knowing? Were there plans to steal this US$57.2 million and the returns on equity it would have produced without the Guyanese people knowing? After all, US$57.2 million of taxpayers’ money at 19% guaranteed return on investment on the initial sum of US$57.2M for 20 years is a guaranteed US $217.36 million in returns alone. Were a pack of vagabonds planning on investing the Guyanese people’s money and secretly pocketing those hefty returns? Were these rogues planning on burdening the Guyanese people by forcing GPL to raise light bills on Guyanese in order for them to collect their US$217.36 million? It is grossly unpatriotic, unequivocally ‘dunce’, abjectly incompetent, frighteningly stupid and possibly willfully fraudulent, to knowingly enter into a deal where you are investing and guaranteeing more (US$193.2 million) than the other investor (US$157.4 million) yet you agree to a minority stake in the enterprise (40%) versus the other investor (60%). How could any investor and even worse, any government, willfully debase itself and the investment of the nation it represents in a transaction in this sheepish, gutless and spineless fashion? How could the PPP government invest and guarantee US $193.2 million in this project while Sithe Global invests US$157.4 M and Sithe ends up owning 60% of Amaila and Guyana owns just 40%? How does the PPP guarantee 55% of this project cost from investors yet agree to 40% ownership of the company? Even at US$157.2 million versus US $157.4 million, how could this shameless and pathetic PPP bunch accept 20% less ownership stake when Sithe Global invested only US$0.2 million more than the government? The evidence strongly suggests this is not stupidity, imbecility, idiocy, tomfoolery, incompetence and ineptitude any more. It is not Donald Ramotar’s new favorite word ‘jackassery’. Not when the PPP has experience in handling large scale projects. This is appearing more like deliberate non-disclosure, false representation, misrepresentation, abuse of position of trust and deprivation to the taxpayers. This is financial rape and economic slaughter. M. Maxwell

Mitwah

Sithe Global may be gone but the wrong things AFC is involved in is still valid in the eyes of the Guyanese people. The truth must be told that the AFC and its members are involved in extortion, corruptions and conflicts of interest.

FM

The PPP has been lying to Guyanese all along on the Amaila Falls hydro project. All along they adamantly stated the government is investing only US $100 million when in fact, the PPP was secretly investing US $157.2 million and is providing a guaranteed US$36 million debt reserve for GPL. There are burning questions the Guyanese people are asking of the PPP now in light of these revelations. Who owns the US $57.2 million the PPP government lied to the nation about and tried to hide from the public? Is it owned by the people of Guyana or by individuals or companies linked to the PPP cabal and the soup drinkers connected to the oligarchy? If owned by the elites – who are they? What are their names? What corporate entities are they hiding under? Who is putting up this money? If this US$57.2 million came from the taxpayers of Guyana, why the secrecy, hiding and lying about using it? Was it hidden to enable the profits and returns on that US$57.2 million to be taken and secreted away without the Guyanese people knowing? Were there plans to steal this US$57.2 million and the returns on equity it would have produced without the Guyanese people knowing? After all, US$57.2 million of taxpayers’ money at 19% guaranteed return on investment on the initial sum of US$57.2M for 20 years is a guaranteed US $217.36 million in returns alone. Were a pack of vagabonds planning on investing the Guyanese people’s money and secretly pocketing those hefty returns? Were these rogues planning on burdening the Guyanese people by forcing GPL to raise light bills on Guyanese in order for them to collect their US$217.36 million?

Mitwah
AFC leaders raking in millions utilising extortionPDFPrintE-mail
Written by KWAME Mc COY   

Thursday, 05 September 2013 20:29

 Just Look who is de writer

 

Cobra do you believe da @untiman too....

 

we taught she could only fool Nehru...

FM

We can do this all night, but it still doesn't change the facts behind the AFC and what they've done. Your repetition is also on the line, Mitwah. Personally, I know you're a good, but you also defend political buggery. 

FM
Originally Posted by Cobra:

We can do this all night, but it still doesn't change the facts behind the AFC and what they've done. Your repetition is also on the line, Mitwah. Personally, I know you're a good, but you also defend political buggery. 

 

 

Cobra had enough...I agree with yuh bana...

time yuh stop defending political Bu@@ery...

 

look like Cobra is one snake

Kwame would not get anymore

 

FM

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