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The big
irony is that the PNCR which is now daily campaigning for the removal of the
Minister of Home Affairs on the basis of allegations, is the very PNCR whose
members/supporters/sympathizers not so long ago called criminals "freedom
fighters," denied that criminal gangs were using Buxton as their haven
after they had done robbing, beating, raping, kidnapping, torching and murdering
innocent people, murdering policemen, engaging in carjackings and drive-by
shootings and the destruction of people's assets, and, not least, demonizing
members of the Guyana Police Force.
This is
the same PNCR that wants Mr. Gajraj to demit office because it is alleged that
Mr. Gajraj was linked to a group of people who saved this country from social
upheaval by helping the security forces get rid of many of those criminals who
had terrorized Guyanese by their commissioning of the above-mentioned crimes.
By its
daily campaign, the PNCR is trying to demonstrate that it is a righteous party
concerned about the upholding of the laws of Guyana.
Actually,
the PNCR is expressing its anger that the criminals, especially those who robbed
their victims of millions of dollars, were put away for good.
I guess it
is only fair to expect that the opposition party will seize the moment - and the
Bacchus allegation is one such opportunity - to turn people's attention away
from, and hoping that they will at least temporarily forget, the recent and
distant events.
Did those
who oppose the PNCR picket Congress Place when the late Mr. Hoyte said in Buxton
that there were no criminals hiding in Buxton? Or after the violence of January
12, 1998 when innocent people were robbed, beaten, stripped, etc.? Or after the
July 3 storming of the Office of the President by its supporters?
Oh thou
hypocrite!
Knowing
the PNC as I do, I am convinced that attempts are being made to link all crimes
speculated to have been committed by this mysterious organization and cause us
to forget, if possible, events not so long ago in Buxton.
With the
PNC/R stepping up its campaigns once again, criminal violence is re-emerging
once more, and not surprisingly in Buxton among the other areas.
I am
learning that one of the gang members was a bodyguard of a leading PNC/R
executive and if this was so then this gentleman certainly warrants being
investigated, as some members of the PNC/R have long been suspected by members
of the public to have links to criminal gangs.
Yours
faithfully,
Shanta Persaud