Whatever we say, we will do… Aug 24, 2025 Features / Columnists, The GHK Lall Column Kaieteur News – ‘Whatever we say, we will do’, says PPP General Secretary, Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo. Hear ye, hear ye. Guyanese have heard words and commitments like those before. They shrink. More disappointments waiting? More disillusionments on the way? Unfortunately, it is my heavy duty to urge them to check what they have got, how well they have done with the promises made by the PPP Government, PPP leaders. Poorly, I say. A sordid affair, the usual stink and dutty business perfected by PPP warhorses given to creamy speeches and crappy fulfillment. In some sequence, I share with fellow citizens as reminders of leadership hypocrisies, ugly political deceptions, now part of a nationwide sickness. Whatever we say, we will do Chapter 1. The president stood on the stage of the National Cultural Center five Augusts ago, and swore to three things. Unity. Transparency. Accountability. Since then, he has gone into hiding. Unity is in tatters (don’t split the vote). Accountability is in a coma (national development priorities spending, bookkeeping). Transparency is an international joke (access to info, non-delivery). The president is the only man in Guyana who still believes he looks good with those three elements so missing from official life and Guyanese life. Even men as pristinely proper as VP Jagdeo and AG Nandlall hold a newspaper in front of their faces, in attempts to pretend at ignorance of those Guyanese realities, PPP truths now moth-eaten and disease-plagued. No one in the PPP can account for the awards of certain procurement contracts; no PPP handpicked body can provide any evidence of transparency in government. Relative to unity, there is One Guyana, a presidential pet so scarred and sickly that it is locked away in shame in a safe at Office of the President. So, the stage was set for what was to follow. Whatever we say, we will do Chapter 2. Guyana’s irrepressible president had a co-starring role with Vice President Jagdeo. Review and renegotiate. We say it, we will do it. All contracts. I have never seen three words reduce two adult men to political adolescents with near zero credibility. Since “sanctity of contract” was and is so invincibly paramount, then why even open mouth back then and promise to “review and renegotiate?” Because it was known from then about what the PPP leadership will not do, then why even go to the trouble and say something, anything? Making big promises to Guyanese, and then deceiving them should never come so easily from those they trust repeatedly. Today, Exxon laughs at Guyanese. Guyanese should see for themselves who joins in the laughter from Exxon in mocking locals. The presidency, the National Assembly, no ministry, should ever be part of taking advantage of Guyanese, however green they may be. Whatever we say, we will do Chapter 3. To the relief of a growing regiment of Guyanese. The president took a rest, recused himself from the next failure to do what was said. VP Jagdeo promised a Petroleum Commission more than once. In six months was the first years ago, then his nerve and mathematics deserted him. In 2025, he is the one-man Petroleum Commission. Maybe that counts as the newest PPP instance of ‘whatever we say, we will do.’ Whatever we say, we will do Chapter 4. From the oil front and business front, a dip into the social and criminal fronts is timely. The president is back, and louder than ever, a real bullhorn. Recall what he put on the table first. Thorough and credible investigation into the gruesome murders of the Henry cousins in Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice. The first blasts of presidential verbal evidence promising ‘thorough and credible’ investigation. What Guyanese have lived with since then, none more than the Henry family, are what batters thorough and credible, hemorrhages both. When a respected Argentinian forensic expert was rejected back to Buenos Aires, “Whatever we say, we will do” came to resemble the bait-and-switch of those who hustle innocents on GT streets for criminal advantage, enrichment. The same can be said for the police murders of Leon Fogenay and others in Linden. Months after solemn leadership promises through other examples of, “whatever we say, we will do’ has turned out to represent another glob of mucus spat on expectant Guyanese. The mysterious death of 11-year-old Adriana Younge is a matter of turning a page in the PPP book assembled in the past five years alone. Whatever we say, we will do Chapter 5. VP Jagdeo had stood for identifying the beneficial owners of the Kaieteur and Canje oil blocks secretly bartered. Supported, then discarded. The beneficial owners have since existed in some deep underground tomb. Unnamed. Unknown. Unrevealable. Cumulatively, merely small parts of the book compiled by the PPP that’s titled: Whatever we say, we will do. Bharrat Jagdeo, GHK Lall, Manifesto, PPPC, Preamble