Should a President be allowed to own a home of his choice?
Georgetown, GINA, September 4, 2012
The Alliance For Change seems to be obsessed with Former President Bharrat Jagdeo’s house and has been using the media to highlight Jagdeo’s real estate, alleging that the former leader acquired more wealth than other presidents.
The Government Information Agency (GINA) solicited the views of the ordinary Guyanese as to whether the Former President ought not to, like every other Guyanese citizen, be allowed the opportunity to construct and possess a home.
Roy Wilkinson
Yes, because he is just a citizen of Guyana, and he has served his term and you cannot just let somebody who would have served our country to go and live like a pauper. So I have no problem with a President building his own home. One President, he didn’t mind that much and that was his choice; the late President Hoyte. He lived a simple life and that was his choice. But I think every President deserves to do what they want, thereafter their term.
Brian Wishart
Yes, why not. Everybody should have the choice to choose what they want to build. I don’t see any problem with it. The President has the right, I have the right. It’s a democratic choice, whether you are President or whoever you are, it is our choice. That is one thing that God has given us, the liberty of choosing. The only thing is that we have to do it in the right way, according to the law of the land.
Carol Blair
Yes, why not, if he can afford to build that home.
Mr. Latunga
He is a free individual and we live in a free country and if a President wants to build a house of any sort, as long as he gets it legally, that is, his option.
Raj Beharry
Everybody has a salary of their own. Everybody wants to have their own house, their own car, and their own choice of everything, so I think that the President should have whatever choice, five-storey, four-storey, because he earn it, he work for it.