{"id":4420,"date":"2013-03-03T13:58:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T18:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=4420"},"modified":"2013-03-08T13:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:59:31","slug":"corruption-is-rampant-among-those-entrusted-to-serve-and-protect-the-citizens-kn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=4420","title":{"rendered":"Corruption is rampant among those entrusted to serve and protect the citizens (KN)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Editor,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reading the SN article caption \u201cNappi Resident calls for an end to police harassment\u201d is just a timely reminder that law and order have all but broken down in Guyana.\u00a0 While the nation is now a domestic war zone between criminals and law-abiding citizens, on top of that the law-abiding citizens also have to contend with the corrupt policemen in the Police Force.<br \/>\nSince the Jagdeo\/Ramotar cabal assumed power in December 2011, there was a clear strategy to foster a breakdown of law and order at the white collar level because of failures by the PPP regime to develop an anti-crime policy. Today, the cancer of white collar crime has migrated to the blue collar level in the State where police officers are now empowered to charge citizens the \u201cfry rice tax\u201d every day by abusing their authority.<br \/>\nEvery hour of every day one can find several police road blocks on the Corentyne highway and the East Coast and East Bank of Demerara highways with the official excuse that it is design to catch criminals but the real intention is not to fight crime but to stop drivers to collect money for \u201cfry rice or the box hand.\u201d<br \/>\nThe police do not stop Prados or Hummers or any of the luxury vehicles belonging to the members of the Jagdeo\/Ramotar cabal, so clearly the ruling cabal does not have a clue of the perpetual harassment that the poor and the working class endured each day to pay the \u201cfried rice or box hand\u201d tax to fund the life style of those corrupt members of the Guyana Police Force.\u00a0The culture is so corrupt in Guyana that One Policeman told one of our sources \u201cif the big ones can tek millions from the Treasury and get away scotch free, why can\u2019t we tek abe small piece from the drivers.\u201d It appears to us that corruption and fraud are the way forward for Guyana since the incompetent minority cabal is busy fighting with the majority opposition to reinstate Rohee\u2019s right to speak in the Parliament. The PPP knows it cannot win this battle, yet it has refused to give up and instead is wasting the taxpayers\u2019 money on a dead issue.<br \/>\nBut to expose this attitude of barefacedness in Guyana, evidence of corruption has been presented to the executive for action only to be told that it will not stand up in court. Also, the corrupt policemen know that the Police will not investigate the Police, and even when there is enough evidence to prosecute, the police prosecutor will botch-up the case in court and the magistrate will have no other choice but to throw the case out, thus allowing the police officers to continue the road block in order to collect more \u201cfry rice and box hand money.\u201d It is time for Commissioner to end this corrupt and illegal practice and stop pretending that he does not know what is going on with his subordinates in the police force.<br \/>\nThere is no shortage of laws in Guyana but until these laws are enforced; we shall continue to suffer from official banditry. It was the Roman Philosopher\u2013Cornelius Tacitus who said \u201cthe more corrupt the Republic the more numerous the laws.\u201d Rohee should heed this statement and weed out the corrupt police officers instead of making the foolish and cosmetic change of name for the force. Is this all he can do?<br \/>\nBecause of the actions of senior members of the corrupt and barefaced Jagdeo\/Ramotar cabal and members of the Police Force, the prestige of the government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws rather than having people in positions of power that have no respect for other people rights and for the rule of law.<br \/>\nIt is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this corrupt leadership under the Jagdeo \/ Ramotar cabal and that has filtered down to an increasingly banditos attitude in most office of officialdom.<br \/>\nSo to the residents of Nappi in the Rupununi, your brothers and sisters on the coast land and other hinterland communities face this music every single day at every conceivable hour and you must know that your complaint is heard by the Alliance for Change (AFC) but until you vote the PPP out of office; baton down for more police harassment, more road blocks and more demands for \u201cfry rice and box hand taxes.\u201d Remember this when you cast your next ballot.<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>\u00a0Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. 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