OLD Kai has been quietly observing statements emanating from the Opposition regarding why citizens should vote for them in what seems like impending elections. Here are some of the main reasons:

It is time for change after 22 years of the PPP/C in Government. So who should we put in Government, the PNC/R=APNU and the AFC? What kind of change will that be, can you picture David Granger as President of this country?

This is a man who has still not managed to do a simple investigation to establish whether his driver physically assaulted a female PNC/R delegate at its recent Congress and called her a ‘dog’, simply because she supported another candidate. This is a man who has articulated a ‘jook fuh jook’ foreign affairs policy without even a twitch in his eyes. This is a man who cannot account for several guns which were issued by the GDF to the PNC/R, some of which were found in the hands of criminals.

This is a man who has still not managed to do a simple investigation to establish whether his driver physically assaulted a female PNC/R delegate at its recent Congress and called her a ‘dog’, simply because she supported

another candidate.

This is a man who has articulated a ‘jook fuh jook’ foreign affairs policy without even a twitch in his eyes. This is a man who cannot account for several guns which were issued by the GDF to the PNC/R, some of which were found in the hands of criminals. Let us be reminded that he was a Commander in the GDF when the weapons were issued and now he is the leader of the PNC/R and would never lose a moment to lecture Guyanese on professionalism but I guess the old saying applies, ‘do as I say not as I do.’

This is a man who has proven he cannot be trusted to keep up his end of a commitment, when he denied he ever agreed to an increase in electricity tariff for Lindeners even though subsequent evidence provided proved otherwise. Therefore, what makes Opposition supporters confident that he will keep up his end of all the promises he has been making to them?

Now what are these promises he has been making? Guyana will be more secure under David Granger! Fair enough, but how secure was the PNC/R recent congress under Granger? An unlicensed gunman was allowed to enter the compound, fired a shot, and in so doing placed the lives of all the PNC/R delegates in danger and all David Granger could muster was that it was the PPP/C which was somehow responsible only to turn back and defend the culprit, when the Police intercepted him trying to escape via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

This is a man who has consistently refused to support critical legislation to aid crime fighting, even though he has failed to provide any alternative to that which was crafted by the PPP/C government.

Granger even refused to support legislation which included recommendations from the Disciplined Forces Commission of which he was a member. If one is going to reject their own recommendations out of political spite, what kind of leader do we expect that person to be? Is this the change we want for Guyana?

Finally, let’s relook at the Congress Place gunman; we have observed countless persons being charged with discharging a loaded firearm. Inexplicably, the individual was only slapped with a charge of ‘threatening behaviour’ and the case was dismissed even though the witness has claimed that she was never informed to attend court to give evidence and was always ready to do so.

Everyone in the Opposition camp remained quiet, the Police and the Judiciary was most professional in their eyes but can you image their reaction if the accused had been someone seen as close to the Government?

That is exactly the type of change the Opposition is offering Guyanese. I leave you to make the other logical deductions.

(To be continued)