No power-hungry despot will ever again subjugate this nation, is the message being sent loud and clear by former supporters of the PNC as they join the PPP/C to rally to the call for national unity and peace in the nation. However, this does not sit well with the opposition elements, and, despite ACDA’s Eric Phillips and other Black leaders eschewing violence as a means of empowering peoples of African descent, they are being encouraged by ACDA’s Tacuma Ogunseye and some other perennial troublemakers to take to the streets again – and, given Guyana’s troublous past, this is a call that is sending terror into the hearts of Indo-Guyanese; of many members of the Guyana Police Force and their families who survived the periodic opposition reign of terror; of the business community; and of decent Guyanese of every ethnic extraction who have been the victims of bandits, and of the PNC’s nefarious X-13 Plan and ‘slow fire, more fire” strategy that was intended to wrest power no matter what it cost the nation.
The members of the “resistance movement” need to survive, and most of them are not gainfully employed, preferring to wrest the wherewithal for their living with the force of the gun rather than from the sweat of their brows, despite the many opportunities currently prevailing through the several projects and systems implemented by the Government and other entities, and a steadily-accelerating construction boom that has taken dynamic dimensions through the Government’s housing programme and the extant entrepreneurial adventurism that has been facilitated by the Government’s free-market policy and the investment and divestment paradigm created by the liberalisation of the economy.
The nexus between the PNC and the bandits have been made evident many times – when they draped the coffin of notorious thief and murderer, Linden (Blackie) London with the flag of Guyana – the symbol of our nation’s honour; and their open championing over the years of thieves, rapists and murderers, without giving a thought for  innocent persons, including innocent babies and young women, slain and despoiled by these predators, of those police officers who refused to respond to the “kith and kin” call wantonly slain, with their families and the nation left bereft and traumatised.
In the wake of the orchestrated jail-break and the formation of the Buxton and Agricola gangs, innocent persons were  slain like flies all across the country. Multi-murders were committed with impunity – of a group of friends having a drink in a bar; of a family at a wedding or funeral; of persons merely walking on the street, shot at random by gunmen who easily escaped for the law-enforcement officers were themselves terrified, because members of the police force were specially targeted.
Almost every time the PNCR and/or its satellites marched, large sections of the city went up in flames, with business houses looted, ordinary workers and schoolchildren robbed, injured and sexually molested in open view, even at the parks.  One PNCR candidate/ACDA member and strident talk-show host was caught on camera with a bucket at a government gas station while the city was burning.
Terror stalked the land – because no-one was spared.  A poor man who went  fishing at 4, 00 a.m. to augment the family income with his 8-yr-old son was slaughtered.  Sugar workers were killed in backdams.  Even their own “kith and kin” who would not join them – entire families, such as the Chesters in Buxton, were targeted.  Homes were burnt with entire families inside.  The few brave policemen who stood up to the gangs were slaughtered one by one.
No-one could transit the East Coast corridor without fear of attack.  A 10-yr-old Canadian girl was visiting Guyana for the first time with her Corentyne-born parents when marauding gangs from Buxton stopped their car, looted their valuables, then chopped them up.  The little girl’s thigh was chopped to the bone.
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce CEO Dev Sharma and his wife Maria were a young professional couple with a son and a daughter who were the apples of their eyes.
They had made unrelenting sacrifices in an unremitting struggle to reach the heights they did.
While others chased the American dream they chased the Guyanese dream – and when they bought their own home they deliberately chose to live in Agricola – because they believed in the Guyanese people.
Within months their home was invaded and robbed, Dev’s wife was shot, and he was kidnapped and taken to Buxton, from where he fortuitously escaped.
Today the traumatized couple have taken their children and fled to America, leaving all they had painstakingly acquired to build a new life in an alien land.
And the Government was helpless, because the police force was crippled by fear (and corruption at some levels).  They kept the gates of police stations locked at many locations, because the bandits often wilfully shot police officers to death inside  the police stations.
Then the bodies of the bandits started turning up.  Gun battles were being waged in the streets, in houses located in respectable communities where the bandits were hiding out.
Decent citizens cautiously started venturing out once more.  The country slowly, painfully, returned to a semblance of normalcy.
But the PNCR, along with the other opposition parties, and their support groups – national and international, which had been notably silent when atrocities were being committed on the police and innocent citizens- started clamouring about a “phantom squad” killing innocent young men, even though these “innocent” young men had been wanted for some of the most heinous crimes known to mankind: and for the resignation of Home Affairs Minister Gajraj.
With the exception of the opposition elements, the entire nation breathed a collective sigh of relief when the police eliminated the marauding gangs.
In the USA, law-enforcement agencies have been known to approve, even encourage and facilitate gangland wars, because the eradication of one gang by the other is much to be desired, especially if the pursuits of the victorious gang, while reprehensible, are not as catastrophic to the nation as the pursuits of those vanquished, and may  even have helped to stabilize the security of the nation to manageable proportions.
The opposition has criminalised many of their young supporters, because while their own children are studying in universities abroad, and living luxurious lifestyles, they are encouraging the young children of their supporters to go on the streets and rampage so that they can get into the corridors of power once more.
The legacy of the successive PPP/C administrations, under each of its Heads-of-State, is one of constructive policies, social enhancement, economic growth and, above all, putting the people first through charting development with the human face of the collective Guyanese peoples.
But the legacy of the PNC and the collective opposition is the destruction of all the worthwhile things in this nation – most of all the trust that Guyanese have for each other.
However, under the watch of the current administration the face of a united Guyanese nation is inexorably emerging from a mapwork of cultural diversities to forge a national identity of a people with a common destiny; and it is this national human construct that will ensure that no power-hungry despot will ever again rule this land and subjugate the nation.
But the nation needs to beware of the correlation between the ramped-up crime wave and the AFC and APNU’s platform of enhanced security; because they would consider innocent lives taken as well worth the loss (as they always have) if they could amass some extra votes as a consequence.
That, as well as Rupert Roopnarine’s confession that the WPA had been amassing arms prior to the 1992 elections, is the reason that Guyanese need to beware of these arch-enemies who espouse violence turning co-conspirators; because Guyana is truly living in the shadow of Rwanda.
Thus, Roger Luncheon’s call and the President’s actions to initiate litigation of those who are pursuing agendas inimical to the peace and unity in the nation are essential prerequisites for the continued stability in the country that has led to such phenomenal development from which all Guyanese have benefited, including members of the opposition collective, whether they will ever be honest enough to admit this or not.
Empowering people of African descent does not mean telling them to do destructive things that will harm themselves and others; but to utilize to optimal advantage the facilitative things that are being put in place by the administration to grow in strength with dignity.  The other route could lead to Guyana becoming another Rwanda in the history books of the world.