President Jagdeo must resign if he cannot face this challenge!

May 27, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

It would not be an exaggeration to say that President Bharrat Jagdeo has been the only leader of the Government and the PPP to have uttered more insults against me. When compared to Burnham, Hoyte, Jagan and the present cabal, Mr. Jagdeo has outstripped them collectively in hurling abuse at me.
He called me ugly, a sleaze ball, an academic that has done no research, a man-kisser, and a book thief. He never stops insinuating against me. He celebrated his award from the UN Environmental Agency citing some people who appear in the newspaper everyday who criticize his government.
Finally, Mr. Jagdeo as President of Guyana, has his chance of silencing me, disgracing me and perhaps putting me in police trouble. Here is a challenge to Bharrat Jagdeo as President of Guyana in charge of the Guyana Police Force.
I have now put up a challenge to the President of this country – face the challenge, prove you are a champion, prove to the Guyanese people that you can rise to the occasion, prove you have leadership qualities.
If you cannot, then the morally decent thing to do is to resign and stakeholders must demand that you resign.
Here is the challenge which is preceded by a description of the attack on me. After shopping at Nigel’s Supermarket, I entered my car and was attacked by a man who threw a miasmic substance at me. There was no one around. I didn’t see anyone around where my car was parked. And the action occurred extremely fast.
Literally, ten minutes later, I got a call from Kaieteur News that enquired what happened to me because that newspaper received a call about the incident.
About eight minutes after KN made contact with me, the publisher Glenn Lall arrived with two reporters, Dale Andrews and Edison Jeffers. A crowd gathered around, and the police came at the same time. Glenn Lall took me to a North Road house where two lovely citizens provided the resources to bathe and change
While all this was going on, the least media house endowed with the resources and talent to do investigative reporting was carrying a strip on NCN television saying someone attacked me and that it was the father of a young lady to whom I made sexual advances. Kaieteur News, Stabroek News, Capitol News and Prime News were not contacted but NCN was.
But there was more to come. The next day, NCN changed the plural to the singular and the semantics. From “sexual advance,” NCN said, the man accused Kissoon of making “a pass” at his daughter.
Then NCN announced it was able to have the story corroborated.
We now come to President Jagdeo. He is the Minister of Information in charge of NCN. I call upon President Jagdeop to insist that NCN provide the police with all that it knows. Let me say up front to make President Jagdeo and NCN feel assured. I will not press charges. So both President Jagdeo and NCN do not have to be bothered with prosecution of their witnesses.
The man and his daughter and the eyewitness must be produced by NCN and President Jagdeo, who is their boss, must insist that they be interviewed by the police.
This man must explain what his daughter told him. Was it sexual advances or a pass? NCN must make up its mind. The daughter must describe to the police who she is, provide her age, and to explain the circumstances of how she came to meet me, and got to know me.
The eyewitness must state where he was situated when the incident occurred. Was he on Light Street or North Road? What did he see? What did I do afterwards? Where did my attacker go? Let me warn President Jagdeo and NCN that the police took me to the nearby business places and the surveillance cameras showed me walking. It means that based on where the eyewitness was, he/she should be in the frame
I would assume by now that the police have interviewed NCN. But even if they didn’t, I am requesting President Jagdeo to let NCN management visit the Alberttown Police Station. Important to note is that this matter could go beyond my choice of not pressing charges.
Under the Sexual Offences Act, the police could charge me. I would hope that the police do they work because neither the father nor me is beyond the law. President Jagdeo, the PPP and the Government now have their chance to prove that Frederick Kissoon is not a virtuous critic but a person who has violated the law.
I await Mr. Jagdeo’s response.

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