IS FALSE TO CLAIM THAT GUYANA MADE NO INVESTMENTS IN THE OIL SECTOR

When It Is The Primaryinvestor

DEAREDITOR,

Not so long ago, a highranking official of Exxon Mobil took time to simplify forGuyanesefactsoralleged factsaboutthedistributionof net oil revenues from their operations in Guyana. In effect, the message was that Guyana was earning far more money from the enterprisetodatethanExxon Mobil and other investors, whereas, according to this high official, Guyana had investednothing.

In brief, these investors, these people from abroad who came to extract the oil, weredoingalltheinvesting, putting their assets at risk, andcommittingtodate,ifnot forever, Guyana to be the chief beneficiary Point of order, I raise this point of order:whenthisinvestorfelt that Guyana made no investment, can he answer thefollowingquestion:Were it not for the deposits of oil, whichhavebeenexclusively Guyana’s patrimony and possession, placed at the disposal of these self-styled investors,whywouldtheybe here?Itis,therefore,falseto claim that Guyana made no investments when it is the investor Unfortunately, I have seen no denial of this neocolonial claim from those empowered to manage Guyana’s assets in the interest of their ultimate owners, the Guyanese people. This attitude is no different from that of Otto Von Bismarck and the other colonialraidersattheBerlin conference in 1884 when they declared themselves free to exploit the resources oftheAfricancontinentand, as they thought, bring modern benefits to the peopleofthatcontinent.

Primary

ThoughIamablindman oftheripeoldageofninetyeight and have so far expressed no views on the same patent and visible effect of fossil fuels, I call upon Guyana’s guardians whohavetakentheiroathof office to defend Guyana from the insolence and unfounded, false theories calculated and designed to disarm our people psychologicallyandmakeus seeourselvesaspeoplebeing patronized by charitable investors.

Yourssincerely, Eusi

Kwayana