Forever a mystery

Oct 13, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

It is very difficult to analyse some aspects of Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo’s thinking. While some dimensions of his psychology are extremely ordinary and evaluation comes easily, there are defying aspects that confuse the political observer.
His attitude to power is fairly obvious and in this context, he can be classified with Forbes Burnham. No fan of Burnham would be so barefaced to deny the photographic fact that Burnham’s conceptualization of power was that it must be absolute. To argue against that in the face of the 1980 Constitution is foolish.
It is not only that the Constitution empowered Mr. Burnham in prodigious ways. It is also the subtle manner in which the power was (is) glaringly tyrannical. Forget about some of the latitudes the Constitutions bestowed on him.
Many other similar documents in democratic countries have resembling clauses. However there is some nastiness that was deliberately put in the document to make the President omnipotent. One article allows Parliament to impeach the President. There is a contradictory clause that entitles the President to dissolve Parliament.
Trying to understand the directions Mr. Jagdeo goes at times is indeed an onerous task. Now that the Nobel Peace Prize winner is announced we should return to the topic of the secrecy of Mr. Jagdeo’s nomination for that award and why Mr. Jagdeo allowed the nominator to remain undisclosed. This is strange to put it mildly.
The Nobel Peace Prize is one of the world’s most honourable, priceless, phenomenal, envious and sacred awards a citizen on Planet Earth could receive.
If Mr. Jagdeo had copped it, Guyana would have been instantly catapulted on the world stage. Mr. Jagdeo would have been invited not to some, but to all the major forums on the world stage to talk about the environment, politics and development.
He would have made news in not some but all the major media publications in the world.
It remains a mystery up to now why a person or a group or an organization would have sought to have Mr. Jagdeo put in a position where he could be awarded the prestigious accolade but do not want to publicly identify with Mr. Jagdeo by revealing his/her or their identity?
Mr. Jagdeo himself, as the President of Guyana, should not have allowed that process to take place.
He should have contacted his admirers and asked them to avoid the secrecy because it would not do anything positive for both the image and credibility. More importantly, the nominators must know that they are advancing the name of a President of a country for perhaps the world’s most coveted prize and such a course of action should not be a cloak and dagger game.
It boggles the mind to know that a person thinks that another human being is so great that he/she should be given the Nobel Peace Prize but they are shy or afraid to disclose that they have made the nomination.
What motive could they have for doing this? Another question to ask is what went on inside the mind of Mr. Jagdeo that he could have become part of that game?
Dr. David Dabydeen was the person singled out as the submitter. He denied it and pointed to a Trinidadian academic. The trail went dead after that. Who is this scholar? Is he a friend of the President? Is he at UWI? What is his rationality behind anonymity? How can an intellectual who is an admirer of the President of Guyana, think that the latter should be a Nobel Peace Laureate and is either afraid or shy to come forward with his identity.
Is there a parallel elsewhere in the world?
I confess I haven’t done the research but I doubt it. And I doubt it very much because of the nature of the award. You don’t go around naming an international figure for the Nobel Peace Prize and hide your identity.
This writer has proof of the nominator. And it is incontrovertible. I will release the document after Mr. Jagdeo leaves the presidency. The time is not right and the political climate is of such that the provider of the evidence will not want that to happen. I have to respect his feelings.
When Mr. Jagdeo demits office, the entire playing field would have been redone and there will be no fallout if the proof is supplied. I promise my readers that will be one of the first documents I will provide them with.
This will not be a mystery that will remain forever so. But until that date, the thing will have to be a secret.

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