Dear Editor,
The orchestrated racism machinery of the PNC is now churning out make-shift organisations and associations to propagate their divisive lies about the social realities across Guyanese communities and among our citizens.

Their newest propaganda puppet is the so-called ‘Institute for Action Against Discrimination’, headed by the disgruntled former army Colonel Lelon Saul, who has purportedly written to the Democratic Black Caucus in the United States Congress with a hysteric claim that Guyana is on the brink of civil unrest, because of fictitious issues of discrimination swirling around in Saul’s head.

Almost a decade ago, Saul was sent into early retirement from the Guyana Defence Force, a situation which he never fully recovered from. His radical views about the PPP/C have never been a secret in and out of active duty and have in fact been intensifying since losing the CEO title his squaddies in the David Granger administration bestowed upon him at the Central Housing and Planning Authority, following the 2015 elections.

Saul’s mindset was on full display most recently during President Ali’s visit to Belladrum. The retired Colonel took to the microphone to rhetorically ask the Head of State if he was fearful for his safety in that community while visiting, forcing the President to issue a strong rebuke. “I will visit any community in this country, at any time and be safe. So, no need to be concerned for my safety” President Ali responded.

Ahead of the 2015 elections in Guyana, retired GDF Brigadier and Burnham strongman, David Granger, was selected as the army boys’ Manchurian Candidate who would become President. The deal saw retired Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Harmon become Minister of State in the new Ministry of the Presidency, with portfolio powers never before seen in government since independence. So much so were Harmon’s powers that the coalition partner, AFC, demanded reductions to achieve better balance of power in the partnership.

Dozens of other retired Brigadiers, Colonels and Captains were handed senior appointments across the government spectrum, at the Georgetown Public Hospital, at the National Parks Commission and other strategic agencies and departments of the state, effectively ring-fencing the governance apparatus with military management tactics, and preparing the machinery for the many strong-arm policies and programmes that would set the stage for a dictatorship.

These ranged from forcing citizens to pay more than one hundred new taxes, taking away cash grants from Guyanese children, rendering thousands of sugar workers and Amerindian residents jobless, and repossessing farmlands in the MMA/ADA and other parts of the country, while at the same time oiling the elections rigging machinery at GECOM with the appointment of Keith Lowingfield as CEO.

Lelon Saul landed at the CHPA as part of the militarization strategy. While there, he singlehandedly issued multimillion-dollar contracts without due process to the husband of his subject minister, effectively discriminating against legitimate contractors and depriving them of fair opportunities in the process. He prioritised the building of turn-key housing units for the military comrades, while stymieing the housing build out for communities that were perceived as supporters of the PPP/C.

Since the failed seditious attempts to steal the elections in 2020 by the Granger soldiers, Saul and several of his military squaddies have been frequenting extremist talk shows. These are the shows that have been calling for the destabilisation of the government and country, with the vilest racist messages designed to agitate the PNC support base to make the country ungovernable.
Not surprisingly, those treacherous efforts have been falling flat in President Ali’s ‘One Guyana’

Now Saul is boldly writing to the US Congress with veiled threats of civil unrest in Guyana, a situation he appears to have first-hand knowledge of and one for which he appears unaverse.
Saul and his fearmongering squaddies would be well advised to take careful lessons from the resolve demonstrated by the PPP/C and other national and international stakeholders, in the face of the undemocratic disposition of parties to the attempted election heist of 2020, and the citizens continued overwhelming rejection of their racist, divisive politics of yesteryear.

The orchestrated racism bogeyman tactics being waged at home and abroad by Saul, et al, at the direction of the PNC leader, Aubrey Norton, to fracture the Guyanese society, will not work.
Its intellectual authors will continue to be isolated and fiercely rebuffed by every truly patriotic citizen of our country, even among their political strongholds; and their plans and schemes will eventually fall into the long arms of the law.

Yours respectfully,
Kwame McCoy
Minister within the Office of the Prime Minister