There is this mad writer again. He is now questioning Granger’s integrity. He said that the Granger administration is the most corrupt in Guyana’s history. He lost his mind. I have a few questions for him. How many degrees did Granger forge? None. How many acres of land Granger sold without getting an assessment? None. How much land did Granger sell below market value? None. How many Pradovilles did he build for himself and his cronies? None. How many oil blocks did he give to his friends? None. The biggest corruption in Guyana is the gifting of Kaieteur and Canje oil blocks to friends. Other corruption activities in Guyana are Pradoville, drug trafficking, and selling land below market value to friends.
Now he says that “I do not accept the label that Granger was above the fray”. He is busy trying to tarnish the good name of a decent man. He is basing this on a controversy that one young lawyer who was an earlier member of parliament is involved with flipping leased land. This is an ongoing case. However, my question is which is a bigger corruption. Is it flipping 10 acres of land or flipping 2 blocks with about 5-10 billion barrels of oil. That land is leased. It will always be there and belong to the people of Guyana. The oil once pumped is gone forever. Now, if the young lawyer committed a crime, he must be taken to court. However, from what I see, it is leased land and the lawyer was acting in his capacity of an attorney. The KN states “It should be noted that the Vendor is listed as Jermaine Richmond and not James Bond. Kaieteur News attempted to make contact with James Bond but efforts proved futile”. I would not have done it if I were a lawyer and a politician. It looks unethical.
He wrote “What role did David Granger play in all of this? Can Guyanese still accept the description of David Granger being Mr. Clean?” He is trying to take the sheen off Granger. There is nothing that this idiot can say that would do that. I worked at the Guyana Forestry Commission and GNRA many years ago. I gave many forest management leases. For 10 acres, it never got above my level. There were two levels above me in both cases and my top boss was two levels below a minister who is one level below the president. The president does not have the time not responsibility for 10 acres of land. That is what technocrats are for. Do you think that the NICIL head would go to the president to get permission to lease 10 acres of land? That is ignorance and is just a tool in his vendetta against Granger. I am scratching my head for about two months now. I wonder what Granger must have done to this guy to make him hate so much. Is it his decency that has driven this person crazy?
He wrote, “ One is I do not believe that whatever shocking conspiracies his ministers were involved in, President Granger did not know.” What conspiracies? Leasing 10 acres of land is a conspiracy. I should be in prison by now. I gave leases for at least 20 forestry companies in the 70s. In the case of the oil leases, Ramotar was directly involved in issuing those. Where is the outrage? There is none from this writer. Is it that he is being controlled? Is he being racist? If you are going to speak about corruption, you cannot overlook the big one and grab the small one only because it is in line with your political view. The oil leases in question would be worth about 300 billion USD. The 10 acres is worth about one million USD. The land cannot be put in an oiler and shipped to Texas but the oil can. Where is the outrage of this madman? He is singing for his diner. He is afraid to say a single word against his handlers. They would beat him and throw feces on him again. He is a coward. He attacks Granger because he is a good person and never used his position to hurt anyone. He never suppressed the press.
I strongly believe that this person is working with his handlers to try and dirty any black person who may be affiliated with the opposition. He is the Bannon of Guyana. Bannon worked on discrediting Clinton for almost two decades and this was used to help his candidate win the election. It is the tactic of Mercury, the same political dirty trickers working for Trump and who worked for the PPP during the last elections. Africans should keep their eyes open and not let this second rate person fool them. It is meant to weaken APNU/AFC if the courts nullify the election results.
Where are the titans of democracy? They knew what “democracy” was during the elections. Where are they now? GECOM should be registering persons for the next election. Local elections are due next year, yet this government is not interested in having GECOM prepare. I thought that democracy included local elections and good governance. Where is this writer on this? GECOM could finish the process that was stopped last year. Put on Masks and complete the registration. Oh, this is not a priority. How else could dead people and migrants who have left permanently vote? This government fought to stop the process and will do nothing to start it up again. ABCE also wants that because they can easily manipulate a government that they helped to steal the election.