H.E. President Dr. Mohamed Irfaan Ali, held yet another successful outreach program, this time at his Leonora residence in Region 3 last Monday from 4PM. It was attended by a mammoth crowd representing the eager faces of Guyanese, who thronged his lawns in order to interact with their home-grown President and talk face to face with him about their personal difficulties and the problems affecting their communities.
Accompanying his Excellency were members of his Cabinet including Ministers, Ashni Singh, Zulfikar Mustapha and Deodat Indar, along with Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Education, Ms. Shannielle Hoosein-Outar, CEO, Mr. Saddam Hossain and a host of other personnel from the President’s Secretariat. Personnel from various Government agencies were also present to assist with Guyanese having issues with NIS, water, electricity, land etc.
The Honorable Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha, mustered the crowd with his boisterous and vociferous accolades for the grand turn out by residents in the region on such a short notice and thanked them for their enthusiastic presence which indicated their support for the Government and the PPP/C. He enumerated on the numerous projects the PPP/C Government have successfully undertaken and completed along with the many achievements which helped to catapult the nation to one of the fastest growing nation in this part of the hemisphere with the highest GDP per capita, in less than four years in office.
Minister Mustapha elaborated the point that the PPP/C has completed its Manifesto as promised during their campaign for the 2020 Election and has even soared beyond its agenda as required. He urged the enthralled crowd which reflected the diversity of Guyana’s population, to reject those who come bearing gifts of false promises and want to deny the democracy this country is now enjoying under the astute management of the Government. He also cautioned the crowd to be wary of those who insist on denouncing the positive strides this Government has made since taking office from day one in 2020.
Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, could have talked nonstop for his regular 8 hours sermon but had to be curtailed due to the arrival of the President and giving way for His Excellency’s presentation. Nevertheless, in his short but sensational speech and with a crowd already fired up, Minister Singh managed to expound on the deficiencies of the past PNC administration when the PNC were in power from 2015 to 2020. The Finance Minister also explained that the PNC had control of the House from 2011 to 2015 when the PPP/C ruled as a Minority Government with less votes than the combined Opposition.
As such, the PNC destroyed Guyana again from 2011 to 2015 when they stifled all of the PPP/C Government’s programs and did not pass any expenditures to help finance those projects. The Amalia Falls Project and the new Demerara Harbour Bridge could have been a reality by now had the PNC supported those projects. The PNC formative 28 years of reign (1964-1992), had grounded the nation to economic bankruptcy. Half of the population, including all races and supporters from all parties, were forced to abandon Guyana and seek greener pastures overseas as they ran from PNC paramountcy, dictatorship, poverty, unemployment, food, foreign exchange and drug shortages, crime, corruption, racism and discrimination.
Minister Ashni Singh embellished on the failures of the PNC Government when then President Granger and gang occupied office in 2015 and he even challenged the PNC to say what they did that were positive and progressive for the people and nation from 2015 to 2020. He emphasized on the crowd by reminding them to look at the hall mark of the modernization and transformation of Leonora which is setting the pace of development in the country, and, a trend setter reflecting the progressive projection of a young nation plotting its way to prosperity.
It was the vernal vigour of a vibrant, virtuous and voracious President Ali, who electrified an already stimulated crowd with his dynamic vitality, to send the crowd roaring and clapping in high crescendo. The people were swayed with Dr. Irfaan Ali’s persuasive words, wisdom and wits, as he mesmerized the PNC’s senseless insensitivity as they dictate their agenda to stop the development of Guyana.
President Ali proposed his love for the people, the party and the nation, a tradition he inherited from his parents and grandparents, teachings which are profoundly and morally responsible as the catalyst to unite all Guyanese regardless of background, to build a ‘One Guyana.’
President Ali made mincemeat of the PNC’s feeble but fearless attempts as they tried their stained hands to taint the immaculate image of the PPP/C and the Government since Dr. Ali and his Cabinet came into power in 2020. He refuted their deviousness when the PNC tried unsuccessfully to play the race card to divide and conquer the people. That did not work because Guyanese saw through their mischievous plan. Guyanese became politically conscious especially since the 2020 Elections when the PNC attempted to rig the elections but failed miserably. Since then, many members have left the PNC Party and crossed the floor. Many more Guyanese are now professing their intentions to vote for the PPP/C rather than the PNC. They listen to their conscience and are convicted by the reality of the what the Government is doing for all Guyanese.
When the race card failed, President Ali charged the PNC of resorting to spreading lies and propaganda. But he cautioned Guyanese not to fall preys to their deceits and expose the wounds created by them. Daily, the PNC are found to be wanting and their corrupted agenda reveal their intentions, dedicated to dismantling all that the PPP/C government have pained for the nation and people.
President Ali reiterated that, the PPP/C Government will always lead with a vision and a mission which guarantee that the PPP/C is committed to building Guyana, unlike the PNC, who is bent on destroying Guyana.
Yours respectfully,
Jai Lall.
