Me, Gerry Gouveia and Khurshid Sattaur

Sep 17, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

At his trial, Mr. Simels testifying on his own behalf cited the names of Guyanese figures that he had dialogue with when he was in Georgetown gathering evidence in support of his client Roger Khan. He mentioned the name of this writer, Mr. Gerry Gouveia, the head of the Private Sector Commission, and Khurshid Sattaur of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA). The day after Khan pleaded guilty, I documented the discussion I had with Simels at the office of the Kaieteur News. After Simels was convicted, there was some pressure for the other two names to detail what they said to Simels.
Gouveia came forward and spoke. When Stabroek News requested a response from Khurshid Sattaur, he indicated that he had to consult his lawyer before he spoke to the press. Now Sattaur has referred to Simels as a blatant liar. Well alright! Simels is a liar. Can we look at life logically now?
Let us assume (for the sake of argument, of course) that Simels is an evil man and wants to make mischief and vilify institutions and prominent names in Guyana. Such a plan, no matter how nasty, would involve some logical thinking. Enter Leslie Ramsammy. Here logic and irrationality go out the window. I wrote about this before but it is worth repeating.
Dr. Roger Luncheon holds a far more authoritative position in the power structure of Guyana than Leslie Ramsammy. So do a few other PPP Ministers. Then there is President Jagdeo, the GDF Head and the Police Commissioner. Why would a Khan conspirator, in an effort to discredit the Government of Guyana, proclaim to the world that a low-level Cabinet Minister was an accomplice of Khan rather than naming a big fish?
Why not blast away at the image and credibility of the Government by citing the names of Luncheon, Mr. Greene, Mr. Rohee? Why Dr. Ramsammy? And so far three persons have identified Ramsammy. Well alright! There are mischief-makers. But what has Ramsammy done to Khan to be implicated like this? And there is one witness who doesn’t like Khan who cites Ramsammy’s name.
We return to logics. There are no logics here. Ramsammy’s explanation that people are out to frame him is absolutely abominable. It should not be accepted. Now a letter that Ramsammy is supposed to have written to the store requesting the spy equipment that Roger Khan operated has been produced. We haven’t got the President’s position on the letter but the David Clarke episode will haunt Mr. Jagdeo when he is ready to face the nation on the Ramsammy letter. We will come to that but let us return once more to logics and evil.
So Simels is on a mission to damage the face of Guyana. He is lying through his teeth. But why name a mere columnist and not the editors who hold more power than the columnist? So why mention Frederick Kissoon and not the chiefs at Stabroek and Kaieteur? Well the logic in this is that Simels did not seek to hurt the image of the media here because he named just one media operative. That’s me. And he is telling the truth because he met with me.
From media, let’s move to business. So Simels is on a destabilization campaign. But no big names in the investment community are cited except one. There is no mention of the Beharry family, Yesu Persaud, Clifford Reis or Sattaur Gafoor. He just identified one person. That is Gerry Gouveia and he has acknowledged that he met with Simels. Our conclusion then is that Simels is not a destabilizing predator because he has not sought to undermine any institution or prominent citizen. But strangely, according to Khurshid Sattaur, Simels picked on him to derogate Guyana, the GRA and Sattaur himself.
Where is the logic in this? There is none. Why would Simels pick on Sattaur and leave out some other big names, like, as I wrote above, important Ministers and security officials? So what we have is a repetition of the Ramsammy barricade – “not me, they are out to get me, they are out to frame me.” Let us leave the Sattaur barricade by again urging this gentleman to take an independent polygraph.
So President Jagdeo heard that Major David Clarke was involved in dubious processes while involved in crime fighting in Buxton, and that is why he refused to promote him and immediately took steps to remove him from a training course in the United States. The President told the media this. Why then, if he believed what he heard about Clarke and what was shown him, doesn’t he adopt the same attitude to Ramsammy? Where is the logic in that?

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