When I re­viewed the hul­la­baloo cre­at­ed by the dele­tion of sec­tion 34 and the un­right­eous in­dig­na­tion of the PNM, I be­gan to think about it from the an­gle of the lo­cal po­lit­i­cal scene. And the ques­tion arose as to why did the Op­po­si­tion vote with the gov­ern­ment in the sup­port of the bill, in­clud­ing Sec­tion 34. Has the pop­u­la­tion stopped to con­sid­er that not on­ly the two UNC fi­nanciers but the whole lot of PNM peo­ple con­nect­ed with the CLI­CO and CL fi­nan­cial col­lapse would al­so go free.

The on­go­ing in­quiry has been re­veal­ing all the peo­ple con­nect­ed with the af­fair. They would go free and be ab­solved of any wrong­do­ing. There­fore, the en­tire in­quiry would have been a waste of time and a huge amount of tax­pay­ers' mon­ey. So wake up folks and smell the cof­fee, the PNM has a lot to lose by the dele­tion of the Sec­tion 34, so their un­right­eous in­dig­na­tion is an­oth­er demon­stra­tion of their hypocrisy. I am there­fore hap­py sec­tion 34 has been delet­ed, so let us move on.

Dr Clif­ford Ram­cha­ran

St Au­gus­tine