Dear Editor

WE have heard the leader of the opposition calling on Guyanese, especially. PPP members and supporters, not to cooperate with the government towards having a better future. We must take lots of things into consideration as to what the man is calling for.

We must also understand that since May 2015, when this government took office, the PPP has never cooperated with the government, be it at the highest level or the lowest level. At Parliament to date, they cannot name one member from the opposition side to be nominated as deputy speaker of the National Assembly. They are telling all their RDC and NDC chairmen and councillors not to cooperate with the various regional administrations. They have been lambasting everything this government has been doing to better the infrastructural work in our land.

They now see the need to support teachers, sugar workers, rice farmers, fisherfolk, and the many other working class groups of this country. They now create division amongst some religious groups and are celebrating a national holiday or a day that was declared a national holiday on a different day.

I was told that the leader and a few members of the PPP attended a church service in Berbice over the weekend. Yet those are the ones who are separating the nation, allowing the racial side to kick in and be in the minds of some people, but yet for all they now decided to show their godly side. I don’t think God will accept someone that faked his marriage, who is creating division among the people, who said if Jesus was in Guyana he would have voted PPP, and who wants to punish the people, etc.

Imagine at the PPP press conference after the chairman of GECOM was announced, those PPP members who attended and sat at the head table seemed to be out of voice, but rather we all know that they were harnessed by the leader of the opposition. The man alone must talk because it seems as if he alone has sense in the PPP. It was shameful. But that’s how dictators behave: they must say everything, go everywhere, etc and don’t do anything.

Imagine, this man is telling Guyanese not to cooperate with the government. He is asking workers to stop cooperating and do what they want. But he is not telling the workers when they do what he wants, who will feed them and their children? For sure, the leader of the opposition won’t take out money from his pocket and give it to every family deciding not to cooperate.

The man wants us to believe he cares for Guyana, but yet for all he decided to pull his members out of the Border Commission. Which man will have his country at heart and do not want to defend his land and people? The man is only showing his real side, all he cares about, and for, is power.

It is very blatant that the leader of the opposition is using the people who support his party to destroy Guyana. But that won’t happen. Dr. Doom should look at the crowd he attracted at his village meeting in Chesney on the Corentyne over the weekend, a handful of voters with lots of small children. That alone shows that Berbicians won’t listen to the race-baiting from this man.

I was told yesterday by someone about an incident, whereby a young man who works with CORE Region Five was chased out of Bath Settlement Freedom House because he was working with the project. It’s shameful that under the PPP they could not have come up with a project that would enhance the environment. So they are chasing those who want to see a better Guyana.

Since this government took office, the PPP wasn’t cooperating and no one expects them to at this time. In Region Five, almost the entire work programme for 2017 is being completed without the input of the PPP’s RDC chairman and councillors. Works are being done across the region, within every NDC.

In Region Five, the positive works will continue even if the PPP decided to protest day after day and months after months. The people are seeing improvement within the region and that is what the PPP is afraid of – DEVELOPMENT under the APNU+AFC government.

I call on all Guyanese to reject the opposition leader’s call and let’s work together for a better Guyana.

Regards
Abel Seetaram
APNU+AFC
Regional Councillor
Region Five.