The PPP will not give up opportunities to fatten themselves
Dear editor,
IT has been reported that the People’s Progressive Party Members of Parliament have taken a decision to “donate their salary increases to their party”.On October 19, PPP parliamentarian Charles Ramson Jr, boldly declared the following on facebook: “I certainly won’t be accepting any salary increase.”
Now, a mere month later, Ramson Jr and his colleagues have done a complete 180 and are now accepting the salary increases and dumping it into the coffers at Freedom House. The question is whether they are using Freedom House as a storage bond for these monies which will be drawn down at some later date. After much hue and cry and hemming and hawing by the PPP about the salary increase and after vehement declarations that they will not accept the 100% increase in MPs salaries, the nation is confronted by the barefaced opposition PPP lapping up the increases and diverting it to their party headquarters where it is perhaps going to be held in savings until the issue blows over and it can be quietly withdrawn.
This matter must also be seen against the fact that the de facto PPP head and Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo has refused his parliamentary salary in favour of his much larger presidential pension which amounts to almost $2,000,000, being 7/8ths of the salary of the sitting President. All of these signal to the people of Guyana that despite 23 years of pillaging the treasury the PPP officials are still unsatisfied and remain money-hungry entities who will not let any opportunity slip to further fatten their party.
Yours sincerely,
Abel Seetaram
