A recent ruling of the High Court during which a case challenging the constitutionality of government depositing proceeds from the lottery into a Development Fund popularly called the “Lotto Fund” was dismissed and it exposes a long peddled lie by the political opposition which they used to perpetuate their corruption myth.
In dismissing the challenge brought by A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) Desmond Trotman the presiding Judge found that the deposit of the monies in the Development Fund of Guyana (Lotto Fund) is in accordance with Article 216 of the Constitution, the provisions of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act and the Lotteries Act, thereby vindicating the Government’s position. For years the PNC(now APNU) and AFC through their various mouth-pieces peddled the notion that the government was engaged in some form of illegal act and listed this so-called illegality whenever the topic of corruption became a discussion.
It is thus therefore not surprising that the corruption crusaders in the opposition media and the other opposition proponents that are usually vocal have been very silent on this ruling. Had the Judge's decision gone the other way one could only have imagined what the front pages of the Kaieteur and Stabroek News would've looked like. Instead we have to settle for a mere passing mention in some obscure section of these self titled 'independent' dailies.
source: http://www.neguymedia.com
