Power and money (and sex and rape of course) in Guyana

Oct 28, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

It is rational behaviour when rulers ignore societal stultification and tell their citizens that positive glows surround the nation. That is the task that they must perform. They have no other choice.
Recent memory will take us to President George Bush just eighteen months ago. In his press briefings and official speeches, Mr. Bush’s recurring theme was that the Americans were on top of the war. Despite graphic statistical evidence that he was losing the war, Mr. Bush told the world he was winning it.
The media, particularly the New York Times, and the Democrats in Congress didn’t allow Bush to get away with his delusions. They did what they had to do – prove to the world that Bush was wrong.
In Guyana, President Jagdeo, as President, has to paint a rosy picture of a rapidly developing democracy named Guyana. He has to extol his democratic achievements. Never mind all are fictions, this is the job of Mr. Jagdeo – to say that good things are happening in the land.
What do you expect Mr. Jagdeo to tell a school of young university graduates returning home after study? Surely, he cannot tell them that our alleys are so clogged that the slightest rainfall will devastate the shopping centres and citizens’ homes in Georgetown. What do you expect Mr. Jagdeo to tell a group of investors who want to set up shop in Guyana? Can he tell them that they must fear the criminals in the night because crime is out of control and investigations are difficult because we are still to have modern forensics?
On the contrary, Mr. Jagdeo will outline the existence of the perfect society. He has done that using the most superlative semantics. Here is one example. Mr. Jagdeo publicly said that Guyana has one of the best Constitutions in the world in terms of consultations.
Mr. Jagdeo’s presidential predecessors, Dr. and Mrs. Jagan were then morbid liars because they spent more than twenty years labeling the Constitution of Guyana one of the worst in the world in terms of everything. Mr. Jagdeo will never stop the use of his flowery language to mask a brutal reality in Guyana because that is his job as President. He is not alone in the world in this regards.
It is for the media and the opposition to resort to unambiguous and forceful language to disprove Mr. Jagdeo because the facts are not on Mr. Jagdeo’s side. Here is the latest episode. On page three of the October 25 issue of Kaieteur News, Mr. Jagdeo in demanding that C. N Sharma be brought to justice is quoted as saying; “It seems that people with money and influence can get anything done.”
There is no point replying to that lamentation by Mr. Jagdeo by getting upset and using strong adjectives to ridicule the President because you are annoyed at the element of temerity in Mr. Jagdeo’s outpouring.
Editors, commentators and all the opposition parties just have to do what they ought to do— inform the Guyanese people that Mr. Jagdeo himself may be guilty of the infamy of not disciplining his subordinates who have power, influence and money and have done terrible things.
Mr. Jagdeo has no jurisdiction over Jim Jones who has a large shopping complex and bribes the police after he assaulted someone or stole his friend’s property. What can President Jagdeo do to stop Jones from using money to acquire immunity from prosecution?
He has little control there. But Mr. Jagdeo can pursue disciplinary action against his underling in the Cabinet, Mr. Kellawan Lall. The GRA submitted evidence to President Jagdeo that his Secretary to the Treasury in 2004, Neermal Rekha, signed MORE (emphasis mine) than fifty bogus duty free letters.
Mr. Jagdeo seems to be following the case of Sharma closely. Has he developed the same interest in an incident that led to the Refugee Board of Canada granting asylum to a fourteen-year-old girl? She was raped in Guyana at a prominent business place on the East Bank and while the crying child was being driven out of the compound, a powerful politician was driving in.
Can Mr. Jagdeo tell us why his Cabinet colleague, Mr. Clement Rohee was denied an American visa for six months? Has the President researched the suicide of a secretary of another powerful politician, a politician that openly wants to see Mr. Jagdeo remain as President?
Maybe this guy makes C. N. Sharma look like the Pope. And how about the politician who took the 14-year-old to his home at Pradoville and had forceful sex with her?

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