The PPP knows what it is doing and is criminal
DEAR EDITOR,
I refer to the articles entitled, “Need detailed environmental study – Adams Project” and “Gas to shore project … Int’l lawyer project challenging Pres. Ali to test economic resilience and liberation studies ”(SN and KN respectively, January 17). Some thoughts follow.
First, there is no Guyanese (for emphasis: no Guyanese) who knows, understands, and has the most comprehensive pool of expertise on oil-related issues, such as Dr. Vincent Adams. He says the PPP government wants nothing to do with it, leading to his ouster and marginalization. The president and oil minister say they want to make our oil business transparent and clean, yet they hide, make themselves small, get dumb and invisible most issues related to this oil. If this is cleanliness, then they need to be bathed repeatedly in caustic soda. I think that will fail, as the PPP leaders are so riddled with inconsistency and the shadow over Guyana oil. They give a bad smell to what’s wrong and how they go about our oil issues; it’s a hectic, troubled business. At best, the leading men are spreading; worse, they are about fraud and deceit and misappropriation. I think of Abasanjo from Nigeria and Angola’s de Santos, and that’s where I sense we’re with oil and our leaders.
Dr. Adams for a detailed study of the Welsh offshore gas project, which I interpret to be comprehensive. Like Payara’s report, Guyanese should not hold their breath, as it falls on deaf ears, dedicated jobs, and nothing does, as the bottom line. Ms Janki challenged the president to release the studies; and, again, I venture that both are wasting their breath, time and ink, because neither the president nor the Vice President have any intention of doing anything of the sort. That is why they are digging and beating hurried retreats to escape any attention, to prevent some liability. Quite honestly, I would be surprised if any studies were done at all, which might explain why the PPP avoids and distances itself from any delivery of documents or disclosures of anything. As I have said repeatedly: this society is gifted with serial political exploiters. And if some excuse was made in a study for the Wales project by some chance, then it would have been lacking in serious substance, which is another good reason for PPP leaders to jump all over the place in ridiculous Guyanese imitations of Australian kangaroos . Whatever they did (if anything) will not pass serious scrutiny; he probably had some border dress to give him what he needed as a cover.
This is why I say that the PPP government does not know the meaning of clean governance or ethical leadership. Examine the record on oil of any length, and it becomes undeniable that the party and its powers are involved in cheating and concealing and pulling the wool over Guyanese eyes. It gives citizens $ 25,000 COVID-19 cash relief to keep them quiet, while he takes part in a stealth betrayal that is sure to cost this country. The party lights have nothing to show Guyanese interested in what is actually happening with this oil, so they play these gestural games, where they remove people who can help and keep things in mind, while ignoring the smart calls to come clean, to be transparent. The president himself is so transparent that if a 1,000-watt searchlight were lit in his face, he would still come across with the dimness of midnight darkness; this is the world in which he lives and treasures.
The actions and inactions of the president and Vice President with Guyana oil convey a sordid story about what leadership means in this country. It’s about setting up a program that destroys the desires of gullible citizens. Citizens had better come to grips with the reality that if some money and cash information gets thrown their way, that’s all they will ever get. For cleanly executed projects, honestly spent loans, and oil deals made with the country above all, it would be better to delete those and from now on. This is what the political cheats in this country are, by the way they mislead us. The government is not alone; it has ensured that the opposition was attracted and brought up to be involved in the dirty acts. And because the opposition is so pathologically corrupt itself, they were the easiest of attractions and efforts.
Where that leaves us ex-oil: all hopes and dreams. And to that I add this epitaph: better to find eternal rest for those. Because they don’t happen; not with the kind of unscrupulous people we have for Guyana’s oil trade leaders and captains.
Correctly,
Lall GHK