Dear Editor,

AGAIN, the PPP/C has got to resort to pernicious lies, so as to remain relevant to the current political scenario, which ironically is of its own making, given its parliamentary treachery of the No- Confidence Motion, and the ensuing consequences of national and regional elections to be held on March 2, 2020.

It would seem that lies! Lies and more lies are being sourced from the bottomless chasm of vile deception and evil plots, that are daily conceptualised in the sleazy corridors of the Robbstown House.

“Land grabbing”, that is, accusing particularly Afro-Guyanese of being involved in massive illegal stealing of land schemes, has now become one of its major cesspool acts, designed to create the perception of such a category of Guyanese as thieves and political opportunists, while concomitantly accusing the government of ethnic cronyism.

It would seem that the PPP/C, as a political party, has not learned from the recent judicial award in favour of Mr. Charles Ceres, for a similar act of defamation to character, uttered by Bharrat Jagdeo, and disseminated by his agent, the Guyana Times.

This latest foul accusation, with some known suspects as its disingenuous movers, is clearly another deliberate contrivance, designed to distract the electorate’s attention from the PPP/C’s criminal record of governance. For how could those evil scandal mongers, not know that the 10,609 acres, had been granted to the Mc Agriculture Trading and Investment Services (MATIS) since 2014, for forestry services? Of course, they knew, but did not object then, but crookedly used the opportunity to smear and defame when the entity decided to venture into agriculture diversification, and applied for permission to do so in 2016.

Let me remind Bharrat Jagdeo, giving just one example of lands given to friends and cronies of the PPP/C at peppercorn prices – GuySuCo was getting ready to seal a lucrative deal through the sale of just over 100 acres of land at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara, to Housing Construction Limited (a Trinidadian Company) but the process was halted by the Jagdeo government. A document titled Privatization in Tables Phase 11 (1993 to 2011) shows that those lands were basically gifted to Eddie Boyer. Boyer is the owner of National Hardware and a friend of Jagdeo’s.The document was prepared by NICIL Director, Winston Brassington.

Page 38 of that document, item 61, showed that Boyer under the name of his company, National Hardware was sold 103.88 acres for $510M (US2.55M)—$4.9M per acre. The document showed that other buyers of land in Liliendaal paid way more than Boyer paid. For example, Scady Business Corporation paid $115M for 4.7 acres — $23M per acre. Even though the circumstances surrounding that sale are questionable, Boyer was essentially handed the lands at a gift price.

Editor, Jagdeo’s high class political vileness, calling for transparency about corruption and land grabbing would have been laughable if he were not making such serious allegations. Such vile accusations could have only emanated and be matched by a similar calibre of political operatives from the PPP/C, or their agents

This is a continuous display of a political party that has become decadent and which walls, of four-fold deception, are gradually caving in on its detritus state. A legal challenge by Mr. Saul, to this latest act of PPP/C defamation, can only hasten the final collapse.

Regards,
Aditya Panday