WHEN the PPP government won the ‘fair’, ‘free’ and ‘transparent’ 1992 elections, the then leader and founder Dr. Cheddi Jagan, emphatically declared ‘no recrimination.’
He could have then added: ‘no discrimination’ and that would have meant at every level (religious, racial, personal, etc.). This is what the PPP has always stood for. This noble tenet, practised so incessantly, led to the most peaceful election ever in Guyana. The 2006 August elections remain unprecedented. So one  has to be aghast, incensed and reactionary, when ACDA via Mr. T. Ogunseye, issues an incendiary, racial diatribe, saturated with horrible racial implications.

First, in Guyana, currently, no one can ascertain any kind of discrimination. The composition and distribution of the PPP’s cabinet, officers and other operatives debunk any such intimation and accusation. One can also look at the public sector and notice this even distribution.

Let it be known however, that racial distribution in the government or work force should not be the measuring rod; good governance must be based on commensurability with expertise and experience. This matter is of grave significance in this developing country. Why?
For one, there are many instigators, insinuators and detractors who propagate otherwise.
Inherent in this is the foolish and false idea that PPP has disenfranchised the Afro Guyanese of some kind of rights. One claim is to refer to the number of unemployed youths.
Let this question be posited: how many, irrespective of race, of the unemployed are equipped or qualified to actually be employed? When a specific group or person is without the necessary expertise for marketability, then the most relevant question is simply to ask whose fault is it? Here are the ‘taken-for-granted’ facts in Guyana.
Education in Guyana is free all the way to the secondary level. Should one, after the secondary level, desire to go into the technical or academic stream, there is provision for this as well.
All one needs to do is visit the University of Guyana and obtain the number of students capitalizing on the Students Loan offer. So, the point should be reiterated: The PPP does not discriminate; so why this outburst?

First, this outburst smacks of an ‘acknowledged but not accepted defeat’ at the up-coming elections. So even though polling will once again be fair, free and transparent, the likes of Ogunseye are already revealing their true colours.

They pose under various banners (ACDA, for example) but a ‘bull in a china shop’ is still bovine and feral. Ogunseye has been removed from a dark Burnhamite era, but the errors of that period remain inherent  in him. Now he seems bent on perpetrating his inherent evil: a desire to disrupt. Here is something to consider.
Guyana is enjoying great peace and progress. When detractors compare Guyana with the developed world, especially America, it is quite unfair. Just look at the genesis of the two nations please. Also, their colonial and post-colonial histories are two different ones.
However, one must also be cognisant of the fact that the USA is experiencing massive and insurmountable problems. It is in huge financial deficit. In the recent past, scores of Guyanese have returned to resettle. This influx of repatriation is a very welcoming sign, and it contradicts the idea that America is so much of a haven. For now, Ogunseye should not only apologise, but be made to face the consequences of the illegality of his action. Is it not illegal? Someone do the check.