PPP’s secret deal with Chinese is clear evidence of corruption and disrespect
November 20, 2011 | By KNews Letters
Dear Editor,
The corrupt and barefaced PPP has cut yet another secret deal with another foreign company without telling the public and even its own PPP supporters. We had the deal with the Indian businessman to whom the PPP gave a five percent slice of our forests for an insult of a payment without telling us a thing.
This airport deal has a lot of money involved, which is probably why the PPP cabal did not plan on telling anyone. The deal is with a company called China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC). A Chinese bank, China Exim, is putting up US $138 million, equivalent to Guyana $27.6 billion.
No one knows how much the Guyanese people will have to contribute because the PPP hid this deal from the public. How could a government make a deal for $27.6 billion dollars and not say a single word to the people of this country?
What is most shockingly egregious, brazenly barefaced and shamefully outrageous about this deal is that the PPP signed this deal just last Friday. Yes, this disgraceful bunch of riffraff running this country signed a deal worth $27.6 billion in the middle of an election and hid this deal from the public. This is deceit, plain and simple. If this is not the height of disregard and disrespect to the Guyanese people, I don’t know what is.
Robert Persaud, the PPP’s spokesman, its election campaign manager, PPP Executive Member, family member to President Jagdeo by marriage and a select member of the inner circle, said just days ago that the PPP is not corrupt.
Persaud denounced opposition claims of corruption within the PPP. This contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) was reportedly inked on Friday, November 11, 2011, mere days after Persaud’s bold and scandalous statement.
Yet, the PPP did not see it fit after boasting that it was not corrupt and of its transparency to prove itself and its sincerity about corruption and transparency by telling the Guyanese people about this deal. Instead, the PPP completely hid this deal from the people of Guyana.
The PPP essentially told the Guyanese people that it has no duty, obligation, accountability and responsibility for transparency to them. The PPP basically told the Guyanese people to ‘go to hell.’ This is the group of men who want our votes and want us to give them absolute and unfettered majority power to do what the hell they want to do with our money.
They had ample opportunity to tell us but they deceived us. These are the people who try to demean a PPP legend like Moses Nagamootoo, calling him a fraud and a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
These sheep in sheep’s clothing who run this corrupt and despicable government say this freedom fighter and respected son of the soil who instead of filling his pockets from the people’s purse went back to law school to get the means to earn a good living as a lawyer is not a good man.
They know the truth that Moses Nagamootoo was not corrupt. I may not know a lot but I know this well, if Nagamootoo was the President like Jagdeo or wanted to be the President like Ramotar he would never ever engage in this kind of filthy behaviour of hiding a $27.6 billion deal from the people. It is why he wanted to run for the presidential candidate of the PPP – to clean this nasty cesspit that masquerades as governance at ‘Freedumb’ House on ‘Rob’ Street.
We, the people of Guyana, have to pay this back, every single penny of it. Each working Guyanese will have to pay $61,333 to repay this secret deal. If the Jamaican newspaper did not report it, we would not have known about it but we would have been repaying it.
Be warned people of Guyana; this China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) brings some seriously frightening baggage to the table. Arafat Rahman Koko, the son of former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia, was convicted and sentenced to six years and fined US $2.53 million by a Bangladeshi court for money laundering and corruption with respect to his dealing with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).
The allegations were that CHEC and Koko were involved in a bribery arrangement and wire payments were sent by CHEC to Koko’s bank accounts. Allegedly, CHEC itself retained some of the laundered funds while its company officials obtained a separate amount and corrupt Bangladeshi officials retained their portion of the corrupt transaction.
The US Department of Justice similarly went after funds from this Bangladesh corrupt transaction. Similar concerns were raised in Jamaica by the opposition with respect to bridge contracts to CHEC. The engineering estimates for two bridges rose by $240 million Jamaican dollars from 2005 to 2011. Jamaica’s Auditor General highlighted serious concerns about the entire project in which CHEC had a major role.
The PPP has boasted about everything that can be boasted about during this election and even boasts about a malfunctioning Chinese built sugar factory. But this deal was somehow strangely kept very quiet. That is not like the arrogant PPP. One has to wonder what is it that prompted this wall of silence on this deal.
What is it that the PPP knows that we don’t or so badly doesn’t want us to know? Why would a party losing serious support every day over corruption take such a significant political risk by signing a massive deal worth $27.6 billion in complete secrecy? One wonders if some benefit outweighs the serious political risk. This has to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
This issue is not just about the wrongdoings of the PPP. It is also about the morality, integrity, decency, dignity and honesty of the Guyanese voter and in particular the PPP voter and whether this is wrong or right to them, whether it shames them, hurt their souls and makes them disgusted and dispirited.
The PPP needs to tell this country how many secret deals have been signed. The people of Guyana and in particular, the PPP supporters have to vote for a change. This is plain wrong and shames right-minded PPP supporters.
M. Maxwell
November 20, 2011 | By KNews Letters
Dear Editor,
The corrupt and barefaced PPP has cut yet another secret deal with another foreign company without telling the public and even its own PPP supporters. We had the deal with the Indian businessman to whom the PPP gave a five percent slice of our forests for an insult of a payment without telling us a thing.
This airport deal has a lot of money involved, which is probably why the PPP cabal did not plan on telling anyone. The deal is with a company called China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC). A Chinese bank, China Exim, is putting up US $138 million, equivalent to Guyana $27.6 billion.
No one knows how much the Guyanese people will have to contribute because the PPP hid this deal from the public. How could a government make a deal for $27.6 billion dollars and not say a single word to the people of this country?
What is most shockingly egregious, brazenly barefaced and shamefully outrageous about this deal is that the PPP signed this deal just last Friday. Yes, this disgraceful bunch of riffraff running this country signed a deal worth $27.6 billion in the middle of an election and hid this deal from the public. This is deceit, plain and simple. If this is not the height of disregard and disrespect to the Guyanese people, I don’t know what is.
Robert Persaud, the PPP’s spokesman, its election campaign manager, PPP Executive Member, family member to President Jagdeo by marriage and a select member of the inner circle, said just days ago that the PPP is not corrupt.
Persaud denounced opposition claims of corruption within the PPP. This contract with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) was reportedly inked on Friday, November 11, 2011, mere days after Persaud’s bold and scandalous statement.
Yet, the PPP did not see it fit after boasting that it was not corrupt and of its transparency to prove itself and its sincerity about corruption and transparency by telling the Guyanese people about this deal. Instead, the PPP completely hid this deal from the people of Guyana.
The PPP essentially told the Guyanese people that it has no duty, obligation, accountability and responsibility for transparency to them. The PPP basically told the Guyanese people to ‘go to hell.’ This is the group of men who want our votes and want us to give them absolute and unfettered majority power to do what the hell they want to do with our money.
They had ample opportunity to tell us but they deceived us. These are the people who try to demean a PPP legend like Moses Nagamootoo, calling him a fraud and a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
These sheep in sheep’s clothing who run this corrupt and despicable government say this freedom fighter and respected son of the soil who instead of filling his pockets from the people’s purse went back to law school to get the means to earn a good living as a lawyer is not a good man.
They know the truth that Moses Nagamootoo was not corrupt. I may not know a lot but I know this well, if Nagamootoo was the President like Jagdeo or wanted to be the President like Ramotar he would never ever engage in this kind of filthy behaviour of hiding a $27.6 billion deal from the people. It is why he wanted to run for the presidential candidate of the PPP – to clean this nasty cesspit that masquerades as governance at ‘Freedumb’ House on ‘Rob’ Street.
We, the people of Guyana, have to pay this back, every single penny of it. Each working Guyanese will have to pay $61,333 to repay this secret deal. If the Jamaican newspaper did not report it, we would not have known about it but we would have been repaying it.
Be warned people of Guyana; this China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) brings some seriously frightening baggage to the table. Arafat Rahman Koko, the son of former Prime Minister of Bangladesh Khaleda Zia, was convicted and sentenced to six years and fined US $2.53 million by a Bangladeshi court for money laundering and corruption with respect to his dealing with China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC).
The allegations were that CHEC and Koko were involved in a bribery arrangement and wire payments were sent by CHEC to Koko’s bank accounts. Allegedly, CHEC itself retained some of the laundered funds while its company officials obtained a separate amount and corrupt Bangladeshi officials retained their portion of the corrupt transaction.
The US Department of Justice similarly went after funds from this Bangladesh corrupt transaction. Similar concerns were raised in Jamaica by the opposition with respect to bridge contracts to CHEC. The engineering estimates for two bridges rose by $240 million Jamaican dollars from 2005 to 2011. Jamaica’s Auditor General highlighted serious concerns about the entire project in which CHEC had a major role.
The PPP has boasted about everything that can be boasted about during this election and even boasts about a malfunctioning Chinese built sugar factory. But this deal was somehow strangely kept very quiet. That is not like the arrogant PPP. One has to wonder what is it that prompted this wall of silence on this deal.
What is it that the PPP knows that we don’t or so badly doesn’t want us to know? Why would a party losing serious support every day over corruption take such a significant political risk by signing a massive deal worth $27.6 billion in complete secrecy? One wonders if some benefit outweighs the serious political risk. This has to be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.
This issue is not just about the wrongdoings of the PPP. It is also about the morality, integrity, decency, dignity and honesty of the Guyanese voter and in particular the PPP voter and whether this is wrong or right to them, whether it shames them, hurt their souls and makes them disgusted and dispirited.
The PPP needs to tell this country how many secret deals have been signed. The people of Guyana and in particular, the PPP supporters have to vote for a change. This is plain wrong and shames right-minded PPP supporters.
M. Maxwell
