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Time for the Government to resign

Jul 30, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

There is no government in the traditional democratic waters of the Western hemisphere that should be allowed to continue to govern a nation based on what is taking place in a Manhattan courtroom right now. My mind was made up a long time ago.
I can cite several of my colleagues whose minds have been made up a long time ago – we knew Roger Khan was invented as a princely figure in Guyana by very powerful ruling elites. We know about this connection long before the drama now being played out in New York.
I remind readers of my response to a question by Mrs. Stella Ramsaroop when she was a columnist for KN. She castigated me for avoiding the Roger Khan saga. She asked what I thought of Mr. Khan’s activities. Among the answer I offered was that if he was not removed from his protected power-base, he would have sought to silence people like me, similar commentators and the private media.
This is a perspective I hold to this day. As the PPP Government sank deeper into the ocean of scandals and incompetence, and as the private media brought the exposures to the public’s awareness, Khan would have acted.
The advantage Khan served the Government of Guyana is that forensic science would have cleared the state security forces of implications in the murders of critics because Khan’s army with their untraceable weapons would have offered cover for the rogue elements in the police and army.
Why get the state security to kill people and become implicated because of scientific evidence when a private army can do that? No one then can blame the Government. When Khan was arrested, a huge fulcrum of governmental power disappeared. To kill people that they don’t like, the political elites would have had to invent another drug lord or hire a mercenary band. But it is doubtful that they would have risked direct involvement of state security
It looks quite likely that this Government will fall if Roger Khan cites its key personnel as being instrumental in the working of his empire in Guyana. But the question that needs to be asked is if what we have seen so far in the trial of Simels is sufficient to demand the resignation of the Guyana Government?
My answer is yes. In the coming days, the eyes of every citizen of this humiliated, destitute and tragic country must be on the eyes of the opposition parties, every one of them, in and out of Parliament and the major stakeholders. They must refuse to have any relationship with the party in power, the Government itself and the Parliament.
No Government should survive what a confessed killer told a New York courtroom this week. This man said that he was part of a group that participated in the killing of a defiant anti-government activist, Ronald Waddell.
The Guyanese people should be reminded that at the time of his death, Mr. Waddell was not charged with any offence, not even petty larceny. If Mr. Khan knew that Waddell was part of violent Buxton activities why wasn’t he arrested? The confessed conspirator told the jury that he did not pull the trigger but he admitted to being an accessory to murder because he was part of the cabal that carried out the assassination.
He went further to outline a Shakespearian conspiracy of terror and darkness. He points a finger to a high-ranking Cabinet Minister. This columnist will repeat what he has written before on the Ramsammy debacle. I am not concerned with Dr. Ramsammy’s alleged inclusion in Khan’s terrorist activities. It is the wider picture that should be looked at.
If there is proof that Ramsammy was the director, then on whose behalf was he acting?
I repeat what I wrote at the time when Khan agreed to cooperate with the district attorneys in the US – logical deduction would find that the most senior members of the Guyana Government had to know what Dr. Ramsammy was orchestrating, assuming that we believe that Ramsammy was a player in Khan’s deadly theatrics. Why would witnesses in the trial of a drug lord point an accusing finger to the Minister of Health and not the relevant power brokers?
I put this question to Dr. Ramammy and he is yet to answer. We should not wait to read the confession statement of Roger Khan in September. As matters now stand, we are seeing the dirtiest manifestations of horror politics never before seen in the English-speaking Caribbean.
The Guyanese people should now decisively call upon CARICOM and the ABC countries for the resignation of the Government of Guyana. Nothing less would be acceptable.

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