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Ministers should be sacked Granger is responsible for the actions of his ministers

Dear Editor, I must commend Robert McRae for his courage and clarity of thought after he stated the case so clearly in relation to the ExxonMobil signing bonus deception and called for the sacking of all those involved. I must also commend Mr Goolsarran; he too demonstrated clarity and conviction when he called for the return of the money to the oil company. It is not that folks want to surrender millions of dollars for no good reason; it is that they want to be paid the proper value for our oil resources, and not enter a devil’s bargain that is essentially illegal.

This nation must be vigilant that our oil resources don’t become a national curse, as those of so many other oil nations have.

How many people have read about the Obiang ruling family in Equatorial Guinea and all the millions of dollars which they stole that bought up assets in California and France? These have now all have been seized. The courts in France ruled the assets must be liquidated and deposited in the national treasury.

I join Robert McRae in calling for the sacking of all those ministers in the Government of Guyana who denied that an oil bonus had been received from the oil company when the Guyanese nation did not know what had been given. Yours faithfully, Mike Persaud Dear Editor,

This letter serves to voice my agreement with Chris Ram. It is meant to offend no one. Ram says, “If President Granger wants to regain the public trust in his administration, he needs to apologise to the nation for this diabolical act by his Ministers, remedy the violations, call in the Police, and take surgical action ... But not before mounting a public Inquiry into all aspects of the administration of the Ministry of Natural Resources, including the negotiation of contracts outside of Guyana, in Grenada and in New York; the process leading up to the signing of an unnecessary, new Petroleum Agreement with Esso Exploration and Production (Guyana) Limited; and all financial transactions in local and foreign currency.”

I, being a political science major from York University am in full agreement that a leader such as President Granger is accountable for the actions of the minister(s) under his watch and therefore should answer to the Guyanese people ‒ his constituents, those same constituents who put him there and who can remove him from there ‒ should he fail in any of his fiduciary duties to the nation. Politics is all about utilizing the resources of a country for the benefit of the people, all the people, not just a few, and this scenario as presented by Mr Ram paints a different picture.

I sincerely wish that in this festive season Mr Granger, whom I find very militaristic, by the way, would correct any inconsistencies and anomalies for which his ministers are responsible in a fit and proper way. Yours faithfully, Mohamed S Zafar Canada