A secret with terrible implications that I have never shared with anyone

Nov 14, 2010 Features / Columnists, Freddie Kissoon

I am about to unleash a revelation that I have thought long and hard about. I had discussions with Mr. Glenn Lall, the publisher of this newspaper on whether this is the right time to publish this information. Mr. Lall felt the time had come but he insisted that his part in the event be delineated. Before penning this column, I ran the idea with the editor-in-chief, Adam Harris.
What happens from here is anyone’s guess but the ball is in Lall and Harris’s court. Both of these gentlemen will have to decide where we go from here. What is published here and now should have terrible implications and tremendous consequences in any normal society.
It is anyone’s guess if anything at all will come out of it. Here we go.
In May of this year, a man with heavy bodyweight and normal height came up to my car as I was about to drive away after shopping at Nigel’s Supermarket and threw a stink, nasty miasmic substance on me. It struck my face and fell unto my lap.
My friend Dale Andrews of this newspaper (he was together with Glenn Lall the first to arrive on the scene) insists that it was feces. It was a mixed substance and there was definitely cow dung in the mixture.
Mr. Glenn Lall began his own investigation and one week later there was some movement. Two of the persons involved in the attack on me met Mr. Lall and Mr. Harris in Mr. Lall’s office at the Kaieteur News and described the plot and the roles they played and who were the intellectual authors and political stage-mangers.
Mr. Lall called me at my home the night and requested that I come down to his office. I put a condition that I would only meet with the men if they were prepared to give a full statement of everything they knew to the US Embassy. Mr. Lall indicated that the evidence has now been obtained as to who were the planners but it was not necessary to involve the American Embassy.
I couldn’t agree. I felt that given the names that were called and where these people worked we had an identical case of Watergate. For me it was the smoking gun that the people of Guyana wanted in order to expose certain powerful political figures. Since we now had the evidence we should tell the embassies of Canada, the UK and the US where this thing leads to.
As with the Watergate scandal, we knew where the trail ended. I was disappointed that we could not have arranged a meeting with these two men and the US Embassy. I don’t know how the Embassy would have reacted but as they say, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
I certainly knew that the attackers would not want to meet the press that is why they chose to speak in confidence to Lall and Harris. I also knew that we couldn’t have endangered their lives by telling the police what they related to us. There was no way I was prepared to go to the police force with what Glenn Lall and Adam Harris described to me. So my only option was the US Embassy. I wanted them to hear for themselves the kind of semi-fascism that has permeated the halls of power in this country.
Where do we go from here? I still think Messrs Lall and Harris should tell the embassies what they know about the May attack on me. It is up to both Lall and Harris to decide where we go with what we have.
Is what I am writing about here old news? I guess you would be inclined to say it is. Most Guyanese know that the covert operatives of the Guyana Government arranged that assault in order to warn me. What the Guyanese do not know are the names of the authors. It may come as no surprise to many. But I still think it is going to be a bombshell.
Well, if nothing comes out of this column, I will hope that I will have my day in court if the PPP loses the 2011 elections. Once power changes, I will ask for an investigation into that aggression that visited me on that evening in May at the junction of North Road and Light Street.
I know who planned this nasty, vicious, semi-civilised act and I hope that one day they answer to a court of law. Bad rulers should face prosecution when their thrones come tumbling down.

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