“As night follows day, so too the return of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to office has seen an uptake in crimes overall – murders, rapes, burglaries, robberies, shootings, and most notably, the industrial scale shipment of drugs as an export commodity.” So said the Alliance For Change in a recent statement
According to the party, generally, there is a pervasive sense of dread and an accompanying trauma people witness in the increase in interpersonal violence and suicides. “Not a day goes by without ambulances whizzing by in all directions as if there is some mass-casualty situation at hand. These are followed by a parade of vehicles assigned to hastily formed “friends and family” security companies of every alphabetic description.”
Chastising the government for not paying attention to the people’s needs, the party said instead of listening, the government chooses to hold more expos, build more roads, and sponsor more fetes. “This is the sad reality for 95% of Guyanese. On the other hand, the “hustlers”, the 5%, all brandishing guns and with flickering lights and howling sirens arrayed on their heavily tinted vehicles, announce that they are back and coming through – literally and figuratively. To the ordinary and average Guyanese, the 95% of us who are the ‘the rest,’ we have to stand aside and look on as we see every law being trampled on with impunity – from traffic laws to anti- corruption and anti-narcotics laws.”
In the past months, Guyanese endured Su-Gate, Mae-Toussaint Gate, and Dharamlall-Gate, and there has not been even a hint that stern action would be taken against the perpetrators, the AFC pointed out. “Instead, the Guyana Police Force, CANU and other oppressive arms, are used to bully, intimidate and shakedown the ‘rest’ for minor offenses like urinating in a public place, and restraining citizens from travelling, while the 5%, who are closely aligned to the regime plunder the people’s resources, ship drugs, and carry on with impunity. ”
Alluding to what the party feels may be the “new Guyana,” attention was drawn to the most recent international drug busts that involves a Guyanese registered vessel and a Panamanian registered ship that docked in our waters before proceeding with its stash, are timely reminders that Guyana’s ignominious place as part of the group of lawless states, is now regained. “We will continue to be embarrassed, humiliated and scorned on the world’s stage, while the local emperors’ parade around as if no one sees, no one knows, and no one has any intention of doing anything about it.”
The AFC said it knows calling for an investigation into how thousands of kilos of cocaine could have easily passed through Guyana’s ports will fall on deaf ears. “What we will do instead is remind that every rope has its end. The PPP is today a shameful repeat of its old self, but this time, engorged by steroids.”
