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Originally posted by Mitwah:
Is there any truth to an alleged US$5000 ($1M) out-of-pocket allowance per overseas trip for President Jagdeo?

Yes. It is true.

What is gonna happen to the air miles that he accrued?

Personal indulgence

Jagdeo’s personal financial dealings need little recounting. As I pointed out in an earlier column, the sale of his first state-subsidized house and land in Goedverwagting at a price that far exceeds market value and to Guyana’s consul in Trinidad and Tobago is one that reeks of impropriety and would have been immediately investigated in any functioning democracy.

Immediately after this sale Jagdeo acquired more state-subsidized lands, but at a price far below market value. A number of irregularities surrounded this second transaction: the President obtained more than 4 times the amount of land a re-migrant can purchase; he paid barely one-sixth of what a re-migrant would have had to pay; and the allocation to him was made by Cabinet in violation of standard policies that state-subsidized land is only to be distributed to persons who do not own or have not owned property in the previous 5 years. Most obscene of all, as pointed out by Bro. Eusi Kwayana, the lands awarded to the President form part of a post-emancipation village. That many of the descendants of those first villages still live in squatting areas while the choicest lands built through the sweat of working people are reserved for Jagdeo and his cabal of supporters, is a monstrous injustice.

It then emerged that 29 tons of building material was shipped to Jagdeo from alleged criminal Ed Ahmad. Mr. Ahmad has other unsavoury antecedents – in the US he “loaned” money to Congressman Meeks, which was only re-paid when the authorities commenced an investigation. Sometime before (or after) Ahmad sent the container of building material to the President, he secured lands from Guysuco on the West Bank. We will have to do the math, because unlike in the US, there will be no official investigation into these events.

Then it has been reported that on each trip abroad, Jagdeo receives a US$5,000 (G$1 million) out-of-pocket allowance over and above the funding for the trip, for which he does not have to account. Compare that to the minimum wage of G$35,000 per month and Guyana today is like France under the Bourbons (of the ‘let them eat cake’ period).

Then there is the presidential pension, which will afford Jagdeo a life of post-retirement luxury. How the $3 million monthly figure has been computed is a mystery to me. Under the law passed by Jagdeo’s minions in parliament many of the benefits are uncapped, so the cost to the taxpayer could conceivably exceed $3m given the standards presently exhibited.


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Lets hope that 21 thousand of good Guyanese citizens will walk away from their habit of voting for this corrupt party on election day and we can get the chance to hold the lot a countable for their thievery.

Keep Hope alive brother.

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Originally posted by D2:
Lets hope that 21 thousand of good Guyanese citizens will walk away from their habit of voting for this corrupt party on election day and we can get the chance to hold the lot a countable for their thievery.

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Originally posted by Nehru:
Keep Hope alive brother.

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Originally posted by D2:
Lets hope that 21 thousand of good Guyanese citizens will walk away from their habit of voting for this corrupt party on election day and we can get the chance to hold the lot a countable for their thievery.

From all indications that appears a fait accompli. The PPP is not coming out of this one with all the bananas.