Dear Editor
WHAT is “political” when former government officials are found to have been participants in activities amounting to criminal misdemeanor, accused of doing so after detailed investigations by specialized agencies, charged and placed before the court?

Still further, what is” political” when there is well-documented audit evidence of criminal plunder of state assets of various type, by the friends and cronies of the former People’s Progressive Party/Civic(PPP/C) government, many of whom are already before the courts, and others under intense investigation by specialized agencies of the state?
The continuous mouthings of opposition leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, would have us believe that such persons had the right to criminal acts, because they are members of his party, or former government, or friends or cronies.

It means that he has set a new interpretation for acts of illegalities, with the understanding that its perpetrators are in fact above the law, and must not be prosecuted. Hitherto, this is a new standard set for social morality.

How else can such be interpreted, given the many incessant statements about “witch-hunting”, which is really a denial of criminal conduct on the part of his pals who are now accused before the courts. How Jagdeo continues to insult our intelligence.

The nation would have therefore experience the results of such governance, in terms of what it had meant as an instrument for plunder of state assets. This is what we have had for the tenure of PPP/C over lordship. No succeeding, responsible government, as the coalition is, must ignore this unconscionable monstrosity that had been exacted on this country and its people. Its response must continue to be intense in its pursuit of those who treated the nation’s money as their personal ATMs.

Editor, this is not about political witch-hunting; this is about the pursuit of personalities, identified as a huge category of former state officials, friends, and cronies of the Jagdeo administration who rapaciously enriched themselves, illicitly, with the labours of Guyanese tax payers, inclusive of the former sugar workers. They must be pursued and be prosecuted.
Regards
Earl Hamilton