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McCoy’s nomination is akin to indecency – Mayor Green
“He does not have the calibre to be positioned in such a crucial arena”
Parliament’s approval of Kwame McCoy as the one of the nominees to sit on the Rights of the Child Commission is another demonstration of Government’s insensitivity in its pursuit of hegemony in every sector of national life.
City Mayor, Hamilton Green
This pronouncement was made by City Mayor, Hamilton Green, yesterday, during an interview with Kaieteur News.
According to Mayor Green, McCoy, who currently operates in the capacity of Press Liaison Officer to the President, does not have the calibre to be positioned in such a crucial arena as the Rights of the Child Commission.
For almost three years in the 1990s, the Mayor disclosed, McCoy was employed at City Hall as his (the Mayor) Personal Assistant.
However, that association, the Mayor said, came to an abrupt end when he discovered that McCoy was involved in daunting improprieties.
“Suddenly letters which were not signed by me for various things appeared…matters of the council, things I needed to deal with as Mayor. I questioned him and I was forced to terminate his service. Soon after that I heard he was a part of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).”
Mayor Green articulated that should the government go through with the appointment of McCoy it will signal that the ruling administration is merely paying ‘lip service’ to a very important institution which was created with the intent of securing the integrity of the society.
McCoy was nominated by the Ministry of Labour and Human Services and Social Security to sit on the Commission along with 14 others. However, this disclosure only served to spark intense condemnation from the main opposition party, the People’s National Congress Reform, which did not fail to signal its disapproval even after the House approved McCoy’s nomination on Friday.
Even the Guyana Trade Union Congress at a press conference on the same day raised concerns about the nomination, pointing out that the move is in fact an insult to the citizenry.
“This is a sad and sorry situation which requires an SOS from the public at large,” Mayor Green noted, even as he pointed out that the churches should not remain quite on such a disturbing issue.
“The churches must no longer remain silent. Silence is not the answer; they have to be able to stand up and say when things are going wrong.”
According to Mayor Green, it was more than one year ago that he had inked a letter to the government emphasising the need for moral and spiritual revival. There was, however, no reciprocation on the part of the administration in this regard, the Mayor opined. He highlighted that it is evident that many people today have lost the understanding of right and wrong while some simply do not know the difference.
“Systemic evasion of constitutional checks and balances has become the norm. Decency whether moral, civil, commercial, religious or political has long been discarded…Indecency has become the new currency of daily life in Guyana.”
The Mayor said that it bothers him that the PPP is allowed to expose the known frailties of some of its minions, adding that “the PPP government can surely find other ways to reward those who seem to be the lineal descendants of Esau, who sold a birthright for a mess of pottage. History can forgive Esau for selling his birthright because he was hungry. Are our friends so hungry?”
According to the Mayor, “this latest assault on decency by nominating Kwame McCoy to the Rights of the Child Commission is really a little too much for us to tolerate”. McCoy himself should see it as inappropriate to serve on the Commission, he added.
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