At all times, we must reply to Mr. Jagdeo

Sep 03, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

Mr. Jagdeo is not Prem Misir. The latter is forced to write on behalf the Office of the President and therefore after awhile, the emanations lose their appeal. I have stopped commenting on the misanalyses of Misir. He has his work to do and readers know where he is coming from.
The President, being the President, is more likely to win a few ears when he takes to the public pulpit. For this reason, Mr. Jagdeo’s open fulminations, lacking hard evidence, against critics of his regime should not go uncommented. The Guyanese people should read and know about the faults, weaknesses and inanities that characterize Mr. Jagdeo’s exercise of power, so they can know exactly where to place Mr. Jagdeo in the scheme of things.
The presidential delivery on Wednesday to the students who returned home was in keeping with Mr. Jagdeo’s pattern – the press was once again vilified for publishing negative images of Guyana. No evidence was cited but the graduates were told these writers want to snatch away Guyana’s future from them. Freud was at work in Mr. Jagdeo’s mind when he used the word, “future,” because those students are going to see for themselves the kind of future Mr. Jagdeo has left for them when his dozen years of the presidency dissolve in the upcoming election next year.
These graduates will not have to read about the writers Mr. Jagdeo alluded to yesterday to ascertain the type of future they will encounter in their own country. Mr. Jagdeo’s Government will provide them with the picture, a picture they have already glanced at in the comparative lenses they wore when they were in the foreign countries studying. Try telling a Guyanese student who studied at UWI that UG is still a living institution and he/she will laugh at you. Then you have to tell them that next year, Mr. Jagdeo would have achieved 12 years in power.
So where is this foreseeable paradise that the media writers want to take away from these young Guyanese, according to Mr. Jagdeo? Here is a description of it. The Georgetown Public Hospital has run out of HIV drugs and had to borrow from a small neighbour, Suriname. Public mortuaries do not function. The stories of rotting bodies are common place. If anyone robbed Guyanese of the new world they expected it is Mr. Jagdeo’s Government. We didn’t have a future in the eighties because electricity supply disappeared. We are still looking for the light after 18 years of PPP rule, twelve of which belonged to Mr. Jagdeo.
Now here are some questions for the students who studied in other countries and must have observed the mores, norms and legal and moral rules of those lands. Some of the countries named were Japan, India, Jamaica, New Zealand, Trinidad etc. Can those students say if the Head of Government in those countries would have remained in power after it was revealed the Head deceived the population into thinking that he was legally married and furthermore when trenchant accusations of abuse were leveled by the woman, he arrogantly told the press he will not discuss the affair?
Let these students tell us if the peoples of Jamaica, India, Japan and other Caricom states would have accepted that nonsense. Let these students tell us if the PMs of India, Japan, New Zealand, Jamaica and Trinidad would have still been in power if their Attorney-General had told the press; “When I hear the media writing about a Minister who does illegal things I thought it was me they talking about because I am a man who engages in those things.” Let those students tell us if the Head of the Government in the countries they studied would still remain in power after refusing to discipline his adviser who was fighting a member of the public in front of high-level diplomats during an international boxing match.
Let the students tell us if the Head of Government in those countries would still survive in their political career when the Head refused to sack a Minister who emerged drunk out of a pub, beat a teenager with his gun because of a woman and then had the police arrest the teen. Let those students tell us in which of those countries they studied, a Permanent Secretary could be found through investigation by the revenue authorities to have signed over fifty (yes over fifty, not fifty) bogus duty free letters and remains happily ensconced in his position. Let those students know that Guyana’s future has been destroyed by the very people who seek to give them advice.

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