Jagdeo’s disgraceful claims
DEAR EDITOR,
The Opposition Leader is bold, and rather extra with his claim that the APNU+AFC Government is the most corrupt in Guyanese history and the English-speaking Caribbean. Yet the People’s Progressive Party’s tricks and evasion tactics will not protect them from the law.For the past three years, former President Bharrat Jagdeo and his counterparts have been taunting the government; claiming that they went on a witch–hunt in the name of corruption against opposition members and public servants aligned with their party but failed to prove same.
Now that the investigation teams are winding down and finally putting the evidence in its correct perspective to file their cases, we will see more former ministers and public agents being charged and more evasion and counter arguments of corruption coming from their ranks.When the Special Organised Crime Unit first commenced their work, we remember them telling the media that the magnitude of illegal and corrupt practices was beyond what they had expected and was branching out to highlight other crimes. I remember one of the agents saying to the media that when they would have gone in to investigate one matter, for example fraud, it was leading to cases of money laundering, bribery and racketeering among others.I also remembered the agent saying that the connections they were making while investigating the crime network that existed under the last administration, was one of the main reasons that prosecutions were taking so long.
Two top officials who served the last government have been charged in absentia with misconduct in office, where they allegedly sold state assets way below market price and handpicked those who would receive these assets. The former president who presided over this filthy governing style, Bharrat Jagdeo, is calling the charges “frivolous”. Of course, he would.If we recall the startling revelations of blatant corruption by Kaieteur News, then we ought to have an idea of what will come, because KN was right on the ball all along.
Guyana is stepping onto the world stage, and if we want to prove our sincerity as a clean and transparent business destination, then now is the time to take a page from Brazil’s book and clean up the corrupt politicians and businessmen that have contaminated and stunted growth of our economy by keeping the wealth among a few.
Peter Joseph
Nazeema Mohamed
Roy Mason
