Dear Editor,

IT HAS been contended many times and proven in every section of the media, inclusive of even those that are now opportunistically on the PPP/C’s band wagon singing lustily with their new-found voice, that its former administration presided over a detailed criminal state that undermined every facet of the society’s proper functioning, during which every conceivable social immorality became a standard for the daily being of the state.

These have not just been empty stories or rhetoric unsupported by any evidence of fact. The many volumes of audit probes and findings, which have been supported by police investigations, revealed a monster column of greedy former state officials, friends, and cronies that sat at the feast of high voltage theft, and carved up of the nation’s resources in every conceivable form.

Editor, it is well known who were the sole beneficiaries of this state pillage and other forms of self-enrichment that included the underselling of state lands, as in Pradoville 2; selling of state lands at ridiculously low prices to favoured princelings, as in Jagdeo’s best friend Dr. Bobby Ramroop being able to own the former Sanata Textile complex and Guyana Pharmaceutical Corporation (GPC), and the same best friend having the hog of the drug procurement system. Surely, Juan Edghill cannot claim ignorance of these grave illegalities, hence its unjust transactions.

So, Juan Edghill – is he still “Bishop”? – in his continuing attempts, via his most recent Freedom Radio appearance, at maligning the government–levelling accusation of “bullyism, nepotism, and cronyism” as being the legacy of the coalition government – is reminded that he had been part of the collective, decision-making of an executive process that not only fashioned the criminal state. He has been an active party to its processes that wreaked havoc, but which also deliberately created a one-tier category of material advancement and enrichment for only friends, family and cronies. This resulted in the concentration of criminal wealth in the hands of one segment of the nation.

As an example of many family members being awarded contracts for business with a state entity, reference is made on the audit findings of the GUYOIL, and its former managing director. This was a prime example of undisguised nepotism.

And, to also seek to transpose the well-known PPP/C brand of political “bullyism”, and cuss down politics to the doorstep of the coalition, is to indicate an escapist mentality of Edghill, attempting again to obfuscate an abysmal culture as far as public behaviour of his party is concerned. It is this undemocratic practice, that does not allow for the rights of expression and dissent, that drove three former prominent members from its ranks; and continue to severely restrict the direction of the party to the dictates of a one-man rule. Even its effort to nominate a presidential candidate was subjugated by what is clearly a process of bullyism. If Edghill has any personal decency, he would challenge such an affront to the right of choice. He ought to be reminded that he has been a subscriber to the ideology of Stalinism.

No such system exists within the coalition, which, as is publicly proven, is open and democratic in its practice of members being entitled to personal views, without being personally vilified.This is another figment of Edghill’s imagination.
This is the legacy which Edghill had helped to create – one of unbridled venalities that would have enriched so many. By his association with, and part of, the criminal state over lordship – he is part of the criminal cabal and legacy of the PPP/C. It hangs high in Robb Street.

Regards,
Dillon Goring