A morally bankrupt regime searches for an image

Nov 08, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

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Why do you think the little dictators accused the AFC of being financed by drug barons? It is an old tactic – accuse your critic of the very crime that people have come to associate you with. The labyrinthine connections between deadly drug men and the top brass of the power elites are known to most people in this country.
After the Roger Khan trial, the empire came tumbling down – Minister Leslie Ramsammy emerged as a suspected liaison guy. (He has denied any implication). Then army officer David Clarke reportedly implicated some really big political fishes and was granted asylum in the US. The book of drug trafficking connection has been published and it has been widely read in Guyana.
There may be a second volume when American indictments are read out to those who no longer hold power.
Why do you think the little dictators accused GECOM of not looking for multiple sources for GECOM’s purchases? Because the regime has become notorious for the accumulation of billions of dollars from the awarding of humongous contracts to their friends instead of openly advertising. It is public knowledge that the cabal got its money from dealing in corrupt transactions with friendly contractors.
Read the last two issues of the Auditor General’s report. It nauseates you to see how billions of dollars can go into the pockets of politicians, and the donor countries have refused to act so far.
Why do you think the little dictators try to pin a tag of homosexuality on me? Because everywhere you find Guyanese, even in Ethiopia or Iraq or San Marino, they will tell you who the homosexuals are that occupy top spaces in the power hierarchy. From CARICOM territories to London to Toronto to New York, the Guyanese Diaspora knows who are the homosexuals in Guyana and the kind of authority they wield.
We come now to the Neesa Gopaul tragedy. From the time the facts became known, the little dictators planned their strategies. It was a case in which they could find some image. Ravi Dev became the chief thinker. He went forty years back and linked the savagery to the PNC Government. He claims the bestiality that took the life of Neesa Gopaul could be traced to the breakdown in moral values under the PNC Government.
Dev of course was writing with an amnesiac pen; he couldn’t remember that after 18 years of PPP rule stretching back to 1992, moral and sexual perversities dot the landscape of power and that is where you can find the circumstances that led to Neesa Gopaul’s cruel death.
Even before the details of the tragedy emerged, Minister Manickchand was in her war room consulting with Minister Baksh. It was the perfect event from which the government could gain credibility and image. Blame the social workers at Manickchand’s Ministry and cite the QC teachers for negligence.
As it turned out both Manickchand and Baksh were the chief defaulters and should be made to resign. Some social workers were unjustly dismissed but the society’s stakeholders remained quiet because they are afraid of the accusation that they are condoning what happened to Neesa Gopaul.
A cowboy inquiry was held by the Ministry of Education and we have on our hand the Gopaulgate scandal. Teachers from QC have spoken to the press. The revelations are that both Manickchand’s and Baksh’s Ministries were negligent too. Information was passed on to both Ministries long before Gopaul was murdered.
In the case of Baksh, his position is definitely untenable. He told the press that QC’s school board was not functioning when in fact during the period when it was “not functioning” correspondence was going to it from the Ministry of Education on the Gopaul case. The PPP Government has acquired another first – it writes memoranda and letters to ghosts.
Finally, the  inquiry. I met General-Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union, Ms Mc Donald and suggested to her two courses of action – a picket/demonstration outside the Ministry of Education and a general strike by teachers. Once more we see how morally impoverished Guyana is.
That investigation into the negligence of the QC teachers was not only procedurally nasty but fascist in its orientation. On what can be considered a national tragedy, the Ministry set up a hearing and didn’t involve the teachers’ union and didn’t recognize natural law by asking the teachers for a comprehensive account of their position.
More fascism is to come. And as it descends on Guyanese we become ever more frightened. What more do the Guyanese want to see before they act? This entire nation is being treated like slaves by a morally and politically bankrupt cabal. And the slaves accept it.

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