Let’s rescue our party

Oct 21, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
I am a supporter/member of the PPP. I have been since I was 15 years old, and yes I am of African descent.
I joined the PYO in1990 and was lucky to have had many opportunities to talk with Cheddi before he died.
I know Moses for all that time and can say no bad thing about him; he is a man of integrity, wisdom and great political knowledge.
Guyana was robbed when he was not given an opportunity to serve as President in 1997.
However we got Jagdeo and we all know the rest of it. When I think about Moses Nagamootoo and all that is happening to him now, I can’t help but remembering Bruce Golding and what he went through in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). But nevertheless Mr. Golding returned to the JLP, became the political leader and is now the Prime Minister of Jamaica.
I hope that good sense would prevail in Guyana too. There is no leader in the PPP that is better respected than Mr. Nagamootoo or ever more politically intelligent. Moses is one of a few leaders in the PPP that would be able to reach out to the other races if he is given the opportunity to lead our party into the next general elections.
Mr. Jagdeo should realise that by keeping Moses and the other Jaganites out of the party decision making process would eventually hurt the party.
I know that the Jagdeo faction is working to push these new people who come around claiming to be with us but I ask how many of them know our party’s battle song or even the rules of our party. I remember when the PYO was an organisation that placed great focus on youth development.
Now it is just a talk shop and our young people who claim to be members don’t even know the roles, functions and objectives of the PYO, our party’s youth arm.
It is time we get our act together and rescue our party. Cheddi is hurting in his grave. Only the ‘Jaganites’ can save us because they know what Cheddi’s vision was for the PPP and our country.
I was at a celebration the PPP held for Dr. Jagan’s birth anniversary at state house in April of 2008.
They were masquerading under a banner that said “Cheddi Jagan’s Vision Our living Guide”. What a shame, anyone who knows of Dr. Jagan, knows that what is been practise today in Guyana is far for what Dr. Jagan tried to teach us or even practiced.
Many of those like Moses Nagamootoo, Gail Teixeira, Indra and Navin Chandarpal, Ralph Ramkarran etc., who know what the vision is and tried to practice it, are been side-lined because it is not in keeping with the Jagdeo agenda. It is my hope that Moses election to the Central Committee (CC) would be an inspiration to the other ‘Jaganites’ in the CC, to bring about real change in our party so that we can get on with the business of re-building Guyana. His election to the CC is an indication that Party members want change, real change, change we can believe in.
Moses Nagamootoo represents real change, he would be a breath of fresh air, he would be seen as a turn around from where we are heading now, I am confident that should our party choose Moses at it’s Presidential Candidate for 2011, the members and the citizens of Guyana would feel the way they did back in 1992, they would feel that real change has come to Guyana once again.
Ossie Rogers

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