Peters debunks Persaud’s comments

Nov 27, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
A mischievous letter appeared in your publication of November 26th, 2010, signed by one Eshwar Shakti Persaud, attempting to cast aspersions on my character and work in political circles in Guyana. The name of the scribe as appeared with the letter is/was unknown to me.
The intent is quite clear – to draw me into a public discourse of events and names of important players involved during the time period referenced. The piece is riddled with blatant inaccuracies and ill-founded insinuations. However, in the interest of confidentiality and respect for the rights of individuals involved during the period, this response will be truthful and to the point.
My modus operandi in all my political life is well known, and bearing false news happens not to rank among my attributes. I was a public servant for many years and never betrayed my employers by leaking sensitive work place documents to anyone, including my political associates.
I had access to defence board correspondence and the Omai Agreement with the PNC Government at different times, but never compromised the confidentiality entrusted in me by virtue of my position. But I did see many other working members breach the trust by sneaking sensitive documents from their jobs to Freedom House. As to the insinuation of handsome rewards, why would I leave my job and hope for rewards from the PPP, which had no such incentives to offer except struggle? My reputation remained intact, and people used to enquire as to why I used to work so hard and diligently for the cause.
The scribe’s fairy-tale recounting of my relations with the Civic is just that – a fairy tale. In more ways than one I, along with Prakash Ramjattan and Rohan Singh, was responsible for the establishment of the original component of the Civic to the PPP. Why is it that the Civic presented a list of potential candidates to comprise the new Interim Management Council for the City of Georgetown, and mine was the only PPP name on the list handed by Dr Hughley Hanoman to Dr Jagan?
Now let’s set the record straight: I resisted Dr Dale Bisnauth’s entreaties to have me appointed Director of Sports. It was after my refusal that he advertised the position. I knew whom the PPP Cabal wanted for the job and I so advised the Minister. I was never ever a Candidate for Regional Elections in Guyana, so the claim I was disappointed is just a figment of the imagination.
Also, I was asked to sign on as a PPP Candidate for the City Council elections in 1994 but I refused. Feroze Mohamed had inside knowledge of this and can surely recall his threats to me on this score.
The obviously mischievous and ill-informed scribe tries to portray himself as knowledgeable about the business of GOLD, which, like the Editor of the Mirror Newspaper at that time, was dabbling with straws. It was Dr Leslie Ramsammy who betrayed GOLD, when he presented their internal documents to Dr Jagan, on the morning of August 22nd 1997. For this, Ramsammy was rewarded with his current job.
Many prominent Guyanese were interviewed for the position of Presidential Candidate of GOLD, but after Ramsammy’s betrayal, Jagan had his Commissars visit several of the business places of the prominent members of GOLD, with threats of dire consequences that had the effect of coercing such members to resign, albeit reluctantly, from GOLD.
The GOLD document referred to by the scribe was titled, “A Social Contract With The Guyanese People” and was researched and compiled by me, Lionel Peters. I never read any of Jimmy Carter’s speeches, so the claim of plagiarizing is pure hogwash. Those who know their political stuff would know where, when and how the term “Social Contract” came into vogue.
Obviously the writer knows nothing of the working relationship between former President Desmond Hoyte and me. What he is in effect doing is allowing a fertile imagination to run amok. I will not discuss aspects of this relationship with the PNC as the obvious intent of the scribe is to extract information that is sacrosanct, as were some aspects of my relationship with the PPP.
Last but not least, my public discourses have never been in the realm of “cussing down.” Rather, I take pride in my sticking to facts and reason – even when I disagreed with others.
Lionel Peters

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