PRESIDENT RAMOTAR PREFERS TO CONTINUE THE PLUNDER AND RAPE OF THE STATE TREASURY Malcolm Harripaul March 24th,

, 2012 Any sensible Guyanese should totally reject President Ramotars statement that there was opposition dictatorship in Parliament, and that the opposition parties had rigged the elections to deny the PPP a majority. President Ramotar and the PPP continue to take the Guyanese people for fools, especially the PPPs traditional supporters. How can an almost penniless opposition, with no access to state resources, no access to the state media, no control of the police and army, and no control of narco death squads, rig an election? On the other hand it was the ruling PPP that had access to billions of narco dollars, full control of the state and government machinery, and complete control of the army, police, and narco death squads. If any party was in a position to rig the elections it was only the PPP. In fact APNUs team that examined the statements of poll at GECOM found numerous instances of forgeries and fraud in traditional PPP strongholds. Today, President Ramotar and the PPP just cannot accept that a large percent of its traditional supporters stayed home on Election Day, or that they have been pushed so hard that they simply voted against the PPP. President Ramotar and the PPP just do not understand that their supporters are glad that the PPP no longer controls parliament, and that their supporters want the opposition to manners the PPP, make them pull up their socks, stop them from thieving, and stop them from selling out the country to their family and friends. So no matter how much President Ramotar and the PPP shed crocodile tears about the opposition controlling parliament, we Guyanese will not be fooled. Guyanese want the opposition to control parliament. The more President Ramotar and the PPP obstruct the opposition and refuse to fund the Office of the Leader of the Opposition, the more Guyanese see the true colours of the PPP. They are seeing that the PPP are dyed in the wool Stalinists bent on absolute power.

PPP supporters who wanted to give President Ramotar a chance are now seeing that President Ramotar only wants to continue the culture of secret deals, and the rape and plunder of the state treasury so shamelessly rampant under President Jagdeo. To date, President Ramotar has not ordered any investigation into any of the secret deals nor has he prosecuted anyone for the theft of billions of dollars. Instead, what President Ramotar wants is to control parliament so that he and the PPP can continue with President Jagdeos blatant corruption and criminality. Traditional PPP supporters are past the point of being totally fed up with the PPP, and are saying that they will not vote for the PPP again. As for any snap elections that President Ramotar and President Jagdeos cronies may well be planning, they should be assured that after seeing President Ramotar in action, traditional PPP supporters will vote the PPP out of parliament at the very next chance they get.