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I will never let Khurshid Sattaur silence me!

Sep 20, 2009 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

On Thursday, I received nine notices from the Head of the Guyana Revenue Authority, Khurshid Sattaur requesting that I submit individual property tax since 2001. He gave me until October 10 with the advice that he will take me to court if I don’t submit nine tax returns. I know where this was coming from. I immediately called dozens and dozens of people asking them if such notices were sent to them. I got not one yes answer.
It was only in 2006, I built a house. Prior to that I lived in my mother-in-law’s house on Hadfield Street, Wortmanville, one block from where I was born. Prior to 2006, I owned only a car
There is nothing to hide. Unlike Khurshid Sattaur, I am willing to take a lie detector test on any resource, wealth or money I possess, on anything in my life. My accountant friends and lawyer friends have the notices and I will file the returns. I was advised that if someone in my economic position could receive such notices then hundreds of thousands of citizens should get their papers in the mail. I rang the GRA head telling him that I would like to know if he has done that. He refused to answer. I indicated that there is a law against discrimination.
I have nothing to fear. There are no fat bank accounts. My house is a very modest one that can hardly attract high taxes. Prior to building it, I was and remain a citizen with working class status. In 2001 and onwards, many, many persons with my education probably had more money than me. I am not surprised what Sattaur has done. It comes with the territory.
This is an elected dictatorship. Mr. Sattaur is very close to the PPP leadership and dictatorship and tries to silence their critics. Mr. Sattaur picked on the wrong person. No one like Khurshid Sattaur can deter me from fighting for democracy for my country. I was in political struggle since I was sixteen. I almost lost my life twice before 1992. And twice after 1992.
A bullet missed my wife’s head by two inches. I showed the publisher of this newspaper where the bullet was lodged in my bedroom. I was attacked in my mother-in-law’s garage, beaten with a gun and my car stolen. I recovered it with all the money inside; nothing was taken.
I was never a victim of fear and will never be one. I wasn’t afraid of the wrath of Forbes Burnham. I am not afraid in confronting the elected dictatorship of Bharrat Jagdeo After I have completed filing my property tax returns, I hope Mr. Sattaur sends his agents to my house to look for the non-existent master bedroom with self-contained facilities, the non-existent Courts furniture, the non-existent Persian rugs, the non-existent plasma television sets, the non-existent fancy drapes, the non-existent jewellery.
After that visit, one would expect him to visit the house of his PPP colleagues to see what structures they have and what is inside these mansions. So I will fill the forms and send them in. I have nothing to hide. There are two cars in the family. My 1995 half-dead, duty-free RAV4 and a second hand Starlet bought for my daughter with my savings and not from my association with drug barons. Unlike some highly placed people in this country, I never had a drug connection.
Mr. Sattaur should reply to me and tell me how many cars he owns and what models his sons have. For readers’ benefit, Mr. Sattaur is the neighbour of his PPP colleague, Donald Ramotar and lives next to President Jagdeo’s house in “Pradoville.” Mr. Sattaur should also state for the Guyanese people if it is acceptable that he is exempt for paying income tax.
I am one of the persons in this country that will not endure stress and anxiety if the PPP Government is voted out. I am sure when that happens there will be a Commission of Inquiry into the madness of corruption that has drowned the PPP Government. Many will be prosecuted. This essay should not end without my repeat for Mr. Sattaur to take a lie detector test on several issues. I called on him to take one before Roger Khan’s lawyer, Mr. Simels, disclosed that he met with Khurshid Sattaur. Now with that disclosure it has become more urgent that he undergoes the polygraph process.
Mr. Sattaur is the only named person that Mr. Simels said he had discussions with that is denying such a meeting. When asked by the media what he told Simels, he said he has to contact his lawyer. Now he says Simels lied on him. Frankly, I don’t believe him. Shouldn’t the Guyanese people demand that Mr. Sattaur takes an independent polygraph examination?

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