THE prolongation of the mischievous and deceptive behaviour, exercised by Lurlene Nestor is a clear manifestation of desperation, on the part of the political opposition, which she serves. Her latest otiose verbiage, in the daily letter columns, exposes another of her attempt, to exploit the gullible and unsuspecting sections of the population. For too long, Nestor’s naivety has been persisting. She is seeking to foist her cunning plan on susceptible Guyanese. As a deliberate perpetuation of dishonesty, she distorts the reality of the principle of proportionality, specific to the Government’s challenge, on the breaches, promulgated by the APNU/AFC’s reckless collaboration in Parliament.

Nestor’s justification for the APNU/AFC constitutional breaches, in the establishment of the Parliamentary committees, is not only an elevated absurdity, but also a position that has no accommodation, in Guyana’s constitutional provisions. I now take pleasure in correcting her, for the record, as a former PNCR Parliamentarian, that she erred in her description of the Parliamentary committee, established by her opposition comrades.

There has been no establishment of any Select Committee in this, the Tenth Parliament just yet. I hope that her mistake was not a case of Lurlene’s actually beginning to believe her own lies. Only Standing Committees, not necessarily functioning, have been established thus far.

Nevertheless, I would like to remind her that the 2011 elections contest was a competition among four political parties. It was on the basis of the elections results, in-keeping with the country’s electoral laws that allocated seats to the political parties on individual strength. No where do the laws of Guyana provide for a combined-opposition majority collaboration, to succeed over the party with the single-largest percentage of the votes.

The PPP/C, being the political party with the single largest percentage of votes, formed the Government in accordance with the law. So how is it possible (Lurlene) to logically have parties such as APNU and AFC, which received fewer votes than the PPP/C, be considered equals with the Governing Party? The electorate voted for individual parties, on the conviction that the party they were voting for had the right plan for Guyana, and secondly, it had a chance of winning the Government.

There is no other sensible reasoning to this; absolutely none. If the constitution intended otherwise, that is, for the opposition majority to be the plurality, then the APNU and AFC could have formed the Government. So Nestor’s argument is untenable and comes over as mere sophistry. It does not have an iota of believability and logicality.

If APNU and AFC were so sure about a collaborative necessity, why didn’t they then follow the laws and coalesce, as the opposition, before the 2011 elections? What is being seen today is pure political opportunism, aimed at grandstanding, showbiz and deliberate disruption, frustration and delay of the Government’s development programme.

These very political parties which spoke so eloquently during the elections campaign, about their commitment to shared governance, pursuing a mechanism for inclusivity and consensus, have now swapped, conveniently their mantra, for what is now their selfish, narrow political objective.

Nestor deserves a scathing rejection for her mischief, deception and abuse of public space, to propagate her confabulation of lies, detrimental to the educational fortunes. This obnoxious fixation for distortion and manipulation of facts should be abandoned without any hesitation.

A closing personal footnote: I will never allow for her mischief and deception to rein hypnotically among Guyanese, even among those susceptible to any kind of gullibility.