Surely, the PPP Govt is playing a prank on Guyanese. More benefits for former presidents? Is somebody kidding? Who in the PPP come up with this piece of trash legislation soon to be tabled in parliament? Who can be so self-centered, so disgusting, when so many Guyanese are so low?
With due respect, former presidents Sam Hinds, Bharrat Jagdeo, Donald Ramotar, and David Granger are getting too much already. Why should they be living like Arab sheiks while ordinary Guyanese are living a scummy existence? I don’t know about Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, but I have regard enough for Excellencies Hinds, Ramotar and Granger to respectfully recommend that they turn their backs on that Attorney General piloted bill soon to be sailing its way unencumbered past the Speaker, past the chambers, and past the pen of assent of the incumbent president. He will also be a beneficiary. Feathering nests that are already stuffed with riches. Millions a month. A bucket of monthly allowances deep enough to choke a horse, and still have bags of oats left to bank.
This is outrageousness par excellence. If I were those three presidents I specifically named, I would spit on this piece of self-serving crud. Guyanese forced to buy one tennis roll at a time on credit, and there’s the PPP Govt going from deformed to depraved with a bill for more benefits for former presidents. What’s the idea? To draw blood from suffering citizens? Guyanese are staring at water at their knees, over their beds, and filling their heads, and these mothers have the &*$% audacity to show a bill for more for those who have it good. I wonder where Dr. Jagdeo stands on this. The fact that it is out there should tell Guyanese all they need to know about where he stands. Instead of searching for ways to improve the lives of the struggling, the worn out, and the beaten down of Guyana, this government is so heinous that it presents this obscenity. Of course, there is Mohabir Anil Nandlall, MP, SC, JP, who always gets the dirty jobs to put on his resumé. If I were Mr. Nandlall, I would resign in objection, and make a big public stink out of his abomination. Yeah, but Dr. Nandlall is a different kind of Kshatriya, as he has proved before.
I am grappling to manage my rage at this newest PPP outrage. Not one benefit more for former presidents, any president. The sole exception I make is for medical benefits, and nothing else. Once the bills can be produced from credible sources, they should be honored in full. Why do they need two cars? It’s a danger to the public that they have a driver’s license. Why should they receive close to a half million dollars monthly for three (three) supporting household staff? Unless the three workers are paid at private sector minimum wage levels (another crime). Why three, and not two?
Hundreds of thousands of Guyanese run for cover when must face market vendor, supermarket cash register, medical practitioner, meat and fish seller, even the minibus driver, and one or two of their neighbors. But the PPP Govt is engaging in the usual trash talk about “codify the law”. Scrap the damn law. Let former presidents have a taste of how flesh-and-blood Guyanese are forced to live. Considering how well former presidents are provided for, they could be doing as well, if not better than some folks at Exxon, right up to Mr. Routledge, to stretch matters a tad.
I don’t want to hear about debate. This amended benefits bill for former presidents shouldn’t be given any breathing room, nor see one ray of daylight. The PPP Govt is a sick set of people to suck more the life breath from Guyanese, when they’re down on their knees. Now to put its own knee on their necks is simply too much.
