Dear Editor,

Please permit me a few sentences in your prestigious and widely read newspaper to publicly commend custos of Manchester Garfield Green for the outstanding work he has been doing to help restore decency, discipline, and civility among the citizenry in Manchester.

In my capacity as a justice of the peace and community activist I have benefited tremendously from his leadership.

Custos Green has organised many training programmes to build our capacities as justices of the peace in Manchester. He has embarked on an elaborate educational programme in our schools aimed at promoting better values and attitudes among our students. He has been a voice for social transformation and is an accessible and very accommodating public servant.

Recently, he acted in partnership with the Manchester Peace Coalition and got noted social anthropologist Dr Herbert Gayle to train a group of community activists in Manchester as “violence interrupters” and peace builders.

He has brought fresh energy to the office of the custos with his affable personality and his penchant for social transformation. The parish of Manchester will need the unique leadership acumen and character traits of Custos Green as we seek to wrestle indiscipline and lawlessness to the ground.

I am very proud to witness first-hand how the honourable custos has transformed his office into more than just a ceremonial architecture or machinery. His selfless attitude and patriotism have given me renewed hope that we can restore Manchester as a quiet, peaceful, and disciplined parish.

Thanks for your leadership Custos Green. Keep up the great work you are doing. I don’t subscribe to the idea that people should only be recognised or commended when they retire or die.

The word is always love!

Andre A O Wellington

andrewellington344@yahoo.com