Dear Editor
ONE can understand Ganga Persaud still being loyal to his good ole party, despite having been made to depart the government under the circumstances which he did some years ago. He is still trying to convince his leader Bharrat Jagdeo that he can still be useful to its misleading causes.

To suggest that the sum of unspent money from the Ministry of Public Health that the auditor general has reported not to have been paid into the Consolidated Fund, but instead has been used to fund the PNC’s last biennial congress, as well as its current Local Government Elections (LGE) campaign is cheap propaganda. It is the type that is expected from Ganga Persaud and the PPP/C; it signals how desperate they are to score political points. This is the misuse of the spectrum that the state has granted to Persaud’s party, which in the process facilitates the dissemination of lies through Freedom Radio.

As far as has been gleaned from the Auditor General’s Reports, the understanding of lack of accountability as far as government accounts are concerned, and thus by extension, its public accounts being in a “mess’’, as Persaud has claimed, is false. In fact, this current administration is not swamped/overwhelmed by its ministries not paying over unutilised sums into the fund, as was the culture of Ganga’s party administration. It is not a practice on the part of the David Granger government.

Ah! Hah! Here is Ganga, openly admitting what such a state had caused in his party’s past administration: corruption, incompetent government, and thieving. He is indulging in the well-known PPP/C tactic of reverse psychology, in seeking to attribute such a state to the current administration. Surely, Ganga must be aware that such a tactic has never fooled the people of this country, who have been fully au fait with the PPP/C’s intention to obfuscate and deceive.

Listening to Ganga’s main points on Freedom Radio, has only served to remind one of the desperate lies and outright misleading information that he, too, has inculcated in his strategy of opposition criticism of the government. He would have realised, also, that there are no mansions that are being built by the coalition ministers; assets being stolen and hidden in the accounts of friends and cronies, at home and abroad.

Instead, taxpayers’ hard-earned money is being invested in the building of social infrastructure such as roads; improved lighting for communities; potable water; better sanitation facilities; and cleaner waterways, even for constituencies where PPP/C supporters reside. There have been progress since 2015, despite attempts by the PPP/C to stymie its advance by its strategy of non-cooperation.

Editor, I am certain that all will agree that Persaud is much too chronologically advanced to be spewing such horrible lies; more so, for a party that has inflicted so much harm onto this country. But in the words of Eric Hoffer, “We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.”

Sincerely yours
Dillon Goring