IT never ceases to amaze me how a few pro-AFC letter writers kept asking about what the PPP/C Government has done for this country in terms of social and economic development. Even Rip Van Winkle woke up eventually, but it seems to me that these people are in a state of eternal slumber when it comes to the achievement of this Government.

The AFC should ask itself what it has done since the 2011 General Election to support national development in this country. The AFC has become so fixated in its objective to destabilise the PPP/C government that it has moved from budget cuts to non-support of the AML/CFT Bill to the calling of a ‘no confidence’ vote against the government.

This is not unlike the UF backing of the PNC during the 1961-64 period. The AFC is replicating that period again, to the advantage of the PNC. History has a way of repeating itself, but can Guyanese allow this to happen?

These AFC letter writers seem to be oblivious of the fact that the budget cuts the AFC supported are very much against what the AFC itself has in their own Action Plan.

The AFC believes that they will put those plans into action when they form the next government; but the question must be asked: When will this ever be? The prognostication says never!

Therefore, if the AFC wants to promote the social and economic development of this country they must support the government of the day and that is the PPP/C government.
The AFC letter writers are also oblivious of the fact that the support base of the AFC has declined to such an extent due to its blind support of APNU that the AFC will never again be able to split the votes in Berbice. The AFC was meant to be a Third Force, not to become indistinguishable with the PNC. Berbicians and right-minded Guyanese know for a fact that AFC’s support for APNU will never be able to allow the progress of this nation to continue. It is quite clear that the AFC and APNU are only interested in acquiring power at any and all cost. At the last PNC Biennial Congress a stark reminder of the PNC’s notorious past became manifest with the rigging and thuggery. In addition, the Rodney COI has allowed our young voters to become acquainted with the real PNC and its capabilities.
These AFC letter writers should know that it takes a very strong President to continue to run this country despite the many devious destabilising tactics used by both the AFC and APNU and Guyanese will continue to support President Donald Ramotar and he will get the majority of votes in the next election. At no period in the history of this country has any president been tested so much and history bear testimony to his honesty, strength, dedication and resilience in the face of severe adversity.
At the AFC’s last conference in 2012, I moved a motion with regards to accountability of funds within the AFC and that motion received the unanimous support of all the AFC delegates including the now Presidential candidate and the Prime Ministerial candidate – Messrs Nagamootoo and Hughes. This motion was as a result of Ramaya’s spurious claims of being owed $4.5 million. Monies which he was not authorised to spend and had no documents to support those expenditures. But what came as a shocking revelation was that those measures were never put in place and certain executive members continue to mismanage those funds for their personal benefits. It was at that conference that I became the mortal enemy of Nagamoottoo. I should have kept quiet about his friend, the herbal charlatan. Now these same gentlemen want to hold the highest offices of this land but blatantly refuse to have accountability measures within their own party.
I want the AFC letter writers to know that Berbicians have moved a ‘no confidence’ motion against the AFC. The next election will prove this beyond any shadow of a doubt.

HASEEF YUSUF
AFC Councillor Region 6