Dear Editor,

I WOULD like to inform MP Gill that his attack on me won’t stop me from representing the cause of the people as an elected regional representative. I will continue to write and highlight things that the PPP is doing to hamper development within Region Five.

In yesterday’s (May 14th, 2017) edition of Kaietuer News, Gill wrote an article in the letter column quoting Abraham Lincoln to prove a regional councillor is a fool. I don’t know that speaking the truth makes me anyone’s fool. What I know is according to that said article, it proves who is the real fool.

Under the PPP no one could have written an article or opened their mouths and say the truth against that government. They would have been shut up or who knows what would have happened. Remember the young man that was speaking out against the former AG, what happen to him for speaking the truth? Under which government did it happen? So please seek more quotes that will not fall back on your head, as the way that article headline seems to fall on you.

I never attacked you personally Mr Gill, as was mentioned in that article. Read all of my letters for the past few months and read carefully, hope you will understand what was written. In my articles, I clearly highlight what the PPP people have been doing here in Region Five. I never attacked, but you seem to be doing your usual thing of attacking people personally.

I would clearly like to say to you: no one has to encourage me to write any article. I do that of my own free will. I do not have to get approval from anyone to write articles, so stop misinforming the public. You seem to be bitter with something, so you are now calling names of people in your articles.

Unlike some who need to get approval from their leaders before they can write an article, I don’t have to, it’s a democratic Guyana. In fact, some were brought here to write articles for the PPP and became MPs because of the false information in the articles that makes the PPP look good.

The chairman is not the head of the regional administration, the REO runs the region. The chairman is like a news carrier and the political head of the region. All he has to do on a daily basis is sit in his office, take residents complaints and pass that information to the relevant authority (REO) to be addressed at the subject level\agency. So no employee of the region or anyone working with the government for other agencies and based in the region has to report in any way to the chairman on a daily basis.

Read the local government laws\act. Under the PPP government, the regional chairmen were seen as the man of the day. They were above the REOs and would demand what they want. Sorry, I think those days are over.

I don’t know if you really know the REO Mr Ovid Morrison, because you would have not lied in your article. Any person, be it RDC councillors, RDC employees, visitors, other agencies based in the region or the guards that are in that compound cannot do any form of abuse or cuss down once in that compound. So please stop lying and get the facts right as to what is happening at the RDC compound on a daily basis.

Mr Gill, maybe your informants are telling you lies or maybe you just want to degrade everyone that says the truth. You can say anything you want about me, it will not upset me, but I will deal with issues that will better the lives of our people. I won’t waste my time replying to hearsay and won’t kneel to the cuss down that you are into. I won’t stoop that low; in fact, my last letter really speaks volumes when I said, you do what you like best. That is degrading and cussing down people. Please re-read it.

I am happy that my last article brought out the truth in you and hope you will continue to be truthful. You have solely admitted in your article that you do not visit villages in Region Five, but people visit your office. Well, it now shows the public that when you say that works are being done for one set of people in Region Five is far from the truth.

You admitted that people from Bath Settlement to Ithaca visit your office. So it clearly shows that you don’t visit those areas to see what is happening. But let me remind you that Bath to Ithaca are not the only villages in Region Five, there are lots of others. Those villages fall under four NDCs alone; what happens to the other NDCs that have tens of villages under their watch?

Mr Gill, I said before and will repeat: I will reply to your articles in the future,only if you deal with the issues I am speaking about. By writing things about me, it doesn’t bother me. Please re-study the quote of Abraham Lincoln because it seems that the cap just fits you Sir.

And please remember the saying, “You can’t keep a good man down.”

Regards
Abel Seetaram
APNU+AFC
Regional Councillor
Region Five

Tel: 684-3293