Can Guyana be saved? Who will save it from the PPP?

Dear Editor,
The PPP has been in office for almost twenty-two unbroken years and during that time politics has been a zero sum game, it’s all or nothing for them.  The dystopian society that exists under the PPP today stretches human credulity when the word democracy and PPP are mentioned in the same sentence.  The PPP controls the means by which duly scheduled local government elections should be held and has failed to do so in twenty years and mendaciously then claimed that the main opposition party that lost the last general elections rigged the ballot.  Amazingly, a large number of their supporters believe this fallacy, which is understandable since it was the PPP that introduced the term “aapan jaht” into the Guyanese lexicon.
Imagine an entire generation has come of age where basic services such as reliable electricity and drinking water are a luxury and not a necessity.  Debt forgiveness, good will and numerous opportunities to inclusively move the nation forward have been squandered and the national patrimony now lies in the hands of PPP oligarchs who have been created within the past decade.  The PPP has knowingly, willfully and systematically bamboozled their followers into believing that their party believes in Marxist communist ideology, while government ministers and well-connected party supporters are super capitalists making up the richest one percent of this impoverished nation.

The PPP has demonstrably proven that unless the ideas, policies or people in charge of governmental institutions have sworn fealty to the party, you will be marginalized; victimized and ostracized.  Ironically, the very things the PPP lobbied and protested against have been perfected under their watch and now Guyana is a semi lawless state that is teetering on the brink of becoming full-fledged narco-state which is one step from being a failed state.  Under the PPP, Guyana is not a nation of laws that are to be abided by everyone, regardless of social or political status.

A permissive atmosphere has been created under the PPP that gives carte blanche to ministers, high level government functionaries or those well connected to those in high office.  The list of PPP ministers and those connected to the government who have broken the law with impunity is long and well documented, but the latest incident involving the minister of finance is the most recent in this pattern of unconscionable alleged criminal behavior.  There is little doubt that if the situation was reversed, the deeply compromised police and equally hobbled judiciary would have found and punished a regular citizen who committed a crime against a minister or one of the PPP oligarchs, or their spouse or off spring.
When the sitting attorney general represents a member of the cabinet in what appears to be a private matter, it is gravely troubling and should raise the hackles of every person of conscience.  When last checked, Brian Yong is a private citizen and not part of the government, but is a friend of the minister. Why then did Brian Yong and not the attorney general or a member of his legal staff, respond to the crime scene?  For the attorney general to belatedly proffer that the minister was acting within the ambit of his duties when he allegedly drove drunk, caused an accident and fled the crime scene, is an insult to the nation.  Was former minister Kellawan Lall performing his official duties when he discharged his firearm in a business establishment at a patron?  He also fled the scene and was later promoted to ambassador to Brazil.  I won’t even wade into the money laundering bill imbroglio but suffice it to say that after sitting on this piece of legislation when they had the majority in parliament, the PPP has a vested interest in seeing this bill not become a properly functioning law lest their oligarchs and wealthy ministers of government will have to face the long arm of the law.

Setting aside the two well-meaning but uninspiring leaders of the main opposition parties and given the foregoing litany of scandal and damage that the PPP has inflicted on the nation; it begs the question, who will save Guyana from the PPP?
Nigel Jason