Executive member of the Working People Alliance (WPA), Dr David Hinds has made a clarion call for Guyanese to undermine the PPP Government since the administration has been undermining the country.
Dr Hinds said the PPP has undermined Guyana and its people by merging the state with the criminal enterprise. For this, he said the government must be ousted by the people.
“I want to repeat it here tonight. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, undermine the government because this government is undermining you. It is undermining this country , it is undermining all of us,” he said during his live online programme Politics 101 with Dr David Hinds, Tuesday.
The United States of America said last week that the state of Guyana has been facilitating corruption.
Three Guyanese closely linked to the government have already been sanctioned for being part of a US multimillion criminal ring, a situation the political activist believes, cannot be divorced from the administration.
Former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Home Affairs Mae Toussaint Thomas has been accused by the US of colluding with Father and son Nazar and Azzurdain Mohamed of Mohamed’s Enterprise to defraud the people of Guyana by omitting more than 10,000 kilograms of gold from import and export declarations and avoiding to pay more than US $50 million in duty taxes to the Government of Guyana between 2020 and 2023. The company also engaged in extensive bribery of government officials which served to enrich the corrupt actors involved, undermine Guyanese institutions, and deprive the people of Guyana of important revenues.
Dr Hinds said while there are private citizens who will always try to defraud the state, governments are in place to prevent such fraud.
“But our government is using the state, not for preventing them from doing so, but to help them to do so. The greater crime is that they are aided and abetted by the government. They are using the state to aid and abet and protect these people. So there is a merger between corruption, criminality and the state. This government has undermined everything that is democratic about our being,” he told online viewers.
He said further, “ we together, always are going to undermine this government, because this government has visited undermining on us. And what is good for the goose, must be good for the gander. If you undermine us, we are going to undermine you.”
“Manners this government”
Dr Hinds said the PPP is the worst government Guyana has seen since colonialism. For this the WPA will use its forces to “manners” the administration.
“ We are mobilising you on this platform, we are going to go into communities to mobilise people on the ground to manners this government.”
He said when a government between elections behaves badly, citizens have to manners that government.
And while the PPP wants to drive fear into opposition supporters, Dr Hinds said he will not be intimidated. He said the WPA believes that free and fair elections are the only legitimate means of bringing down corrupt governments.
“We accept that elections are the only way to bring down governments and that is why we in the WPA are preparing for elections. We accept that free and fair elections are the way to go. That we will accept the results of free and fair elections.
“ We also are saying that in between elections, when a government is behaving bad, we have to manners that government. And as the days and weeks go by we are going to ask you for your vote.”
He said the government is trying its best not to have free and fair elections. The opposition, he said, must be prepared to fight.
Meanwhile. Dr Hinds scolded East Indian Guyanese who are not part of the PPP for refusing to condemn the atrocities of the government.
He said there are some Indian Guyanese who had hammered the PNC and Burnham for their wrongdoings. Today, the PPP is doing worse than Burnham and they are “meek and are not hammering the PPP. And they want people like me to stop hammering the PPP. They have evil multiplied by 100 in their face right now.
“If this corruption that the American exposed had happened under Granger, Hoyte or Burnham, this country would have been in an uproar from our Indian brothers and sisters. But let me say, I know Burnham government, I fought against it, but this kind of corruption that the Americans exposed last week, Burnham would have never permitted it,” he stated.
